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Macroscopic quantum self-trapping in dynamical tunneling. It is well known that increasing the nonlinearity due to repulsive atomic interactions in a double-well Bose-Einstein condensate suppresses quantum tunneling between the two sites. Here we find analogous behavior in the dynamical tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate between period-one resonances in a single driven potential well. For small nonlinearities we find unhindered tunneling between the resonances, but with an increasing period as compared to the noninteracting system. For nonlinearities above a critical value we generally observe that the tunneling shuts down. However, for certain regimes of modulation parameters we find that dynamical tunneling reemerges for large enough nonlinearities, an effect not present in spatial double-well tunneling. We develop a two-mode model in good agreement with full numerical simulations over a wide range of parameters, which allows the suppression of tunneling to be attributed to macroscopic quantum self-trapping.

Q: How to tell the Facebook sharer to ignore images? I want Facebook's share.php to ignore certain images for the page thumbnail. It should scrape my page as it does (without an og:image meta tag for a certain default thumb). Is there an attribute I can add to the image or a container div? I don't want to f*** up my page with javascript just for the share scraper tho. A: The sharer.php is deprecated and should no longer be used. Facebook could completely remove it at any time. For the like, it uses og tags. Just specify the og:image tag in the head section of your html, no javascript required to change the image tag :)

Originally Posted by squig Originally Posted by The D5200 did better than I expected, if you hadhold it the roller shutter seems worse because it's so light, same goes for the Nex-5n. But if you handhold any DSLR you're a bloody idiot! It would be great if we could get some numbers for the GH3, GH2, 1DC, 1DX, and D800 too.

First came Web 2.0, which begot social networking, which morphed into a much easier term to hype called Social Media. While Web 2.0 is considered to be more of an umbrella term for a new philosophy for how things like development and selling – or not selling depending on your feelings about freenomics – on the web. This movement was born out of the collapse of the dotcom boom of the late 90’s and was suppose to embody all that is good and transparent about ourselves on the web. Everyone feel the love just flowing out of the whole idea of Web 2.0? Well actually now it is all the hot air that was holding it up that is flowing outward but that is another post for another day. Even with that though, there is still this thought that Social Media is the bigger result of this latest boom and bust period of the web. After all everyone and their brother wants to jump on the bandwagon now and in the typical self-fulfilling prophesy those that haven’t yet are hiring social media consultants to tell them how they can save their asses. This of course is guaranteed to have these newly minted consultants proclaim that everyone must grab their piece of the social media wagon as it goes by. But grab a piece of what? After all, social media is just a term that means having conversations with as many people as possible, as transparently as possible and if you can make them your friend. Social Media boils down to nothing more than having as many friends as possible on as many of the different social media services as you can possibly belong to; and if you can’t belong to them all join one of the services that lets you broadcast like a megaphone to everyone from one place. At what point though does this become just a pointless exercise in sending out following notifications ad nauseam. At what point does having all these friends become just ridiculous bullshit because we really don’t know who these people are and for the most part we don’t care just as long as they follow us back. Do we know if their belief systems meshes with ours, or will something we say at some point spark a royal flamefest that everyone jumps in on if for no other reason that they can. Just because our contact lists on various services are suffering from a bad Viagra overdose does that really make our time spent online any more valuable or does it just give us bragging rights on how popular we are. A good friend of mine; and not just because we connected on some silly ass service, recently posted about his quitting FriendFeed. I can totally understand why Mark did this given his penchant for talking about and sharing political oriented stuff. The problem is that he harboured the false belief that just because they were friends on FriendFeed people would be reasonable and thoughtful and would enjoy intelligent discourse over the things he was sharing. That unfortunately was his first mistake because no matter how many people you have in the same room – or in the case of social media services – the same friend list none of them will share exactly the same ideals. Under normal social; not online social nonsense but real life social there are two definite things people don’t talk about unless they are itching for a fight and that is politics and religion. Now Rob Diana; guest posting on Louis Gray’s blog, quite rightly pointed out that this is a perfect example of how our real life social filters have not made the transition to our online social circles. As true as this might be I also believe it is because we have too many friends online and that is blinding us to the fact that there are times we need to just shut up. This incident that Mark experienced and caused to him to sign out of FriendFeed for good is something I believe we will start seeing more of. People by their very nature have close circles of friends that they are comfortable with. They know what can or cannot be discussed because those are boundaries we have learned over the time it has taken to get to know them as friends.

The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter on solid domestic demand, showing fairly strong momentum that could still allow the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates this year. Gross domestic product expanded at a 3.7 percent annual pace instead of the 2.3 percent rate reported last month, the Commerce Department said on Thursday in its second GDP estimate. The GDP report, which was released in the wake of a global stock market sell-off, should offer assurance to both investors and cautious Fed officials that the United States was in good shape to weather the growing strains in the world economy. Concerns over slowing economic growth in China sent global equity markets into a tailspin last week, raising doubts that the U.S. central bank would raise its short-term interest rate next month. On Wednesday, New York Fed President William Dudley said that prospects of a September lift-off in the central bank's key lending rate "seems less compelling to me than it was a few weeks ago." The upward revisions to second-quarter growth also reflected the accumulation of $121.1 billion worth of inventories, up from the previous estimate of $110 billion. That meant inventories contributed 0.22 percentage point to GDP instead of subtracting 0.08 percentage point as reported last month. Read More Why Trump's protectionist ways will hurt the economy While the huge inventory build will likely weigh on growth in the third quarter, the blow could be softened by rebounding business investment on capital goods. Economists polled by Reuters had expected that second-quarter GDP growth would be revised to a 3.2 percent rate. Underscoring the economy's solid fundamentals, a measure of private domestic demand, which excludes trade, inventories and government expenditures, increased at a 3.3 percent rate, instead of the previously reported 2.5 percent pace. Read More The Fed should still hike rates in September Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 3.1 percent rate, rather than the 2.9 percent pace reported last month. Consumer spending got off a to brisk start in the third quarter, with retail sales rising solidly in July. A strong labor market, cheaper gasoline and relatively higher house prices, which are boosting household wealth, are helping to support consumer spending.

/** * AdminLTE Demo Menu * ------------------ * You should not use this file in production. * This file is for demo purposes only. */ (function ($) { 'use strict' var $sidebar = $('.control-sidebar') var $container = $('<div />', { class: 'p-3 control-sidebar-content' }) $sidebar.append($container) var navbar_dark_skins = [ 'navbar-primary', 'navbar-secondary', 'navbar-info', 'navbar-success', 'navbar-danger', 'navbar-indigo', 'navbar-purple', 'navbar-pink', 'navbar-teal', 'navbar-cyan', 'navbar-dark', 'navbar-gray-dark', 'navbar-gray', ] var navbar_light_skins = [ 'navbar-light', 'navbar-warning', 'navbar-white', 'navbar-orange', ] $container.append( '<h5>Customize AdminLTE</h5><hr class="mb-2"/>' + '<h6>Navbar Variants</h6>' ) var $navbar_variants = $('<div />', { 'class': 'd-flex' }) var navbar_all_colors = navbar_dark_skins.concat(navbar_light_skins) var $navbar_variants_colors = createSkinBlock(navbar_all_colors, function (e) { var color = $(this).data('color') var $main_header = $('.main-header') $main_header.removeClass('navbar-dark').removeClass('navbar-light') navbar_all_colors.map(function (color) { $main_header.removeClass(color) }) if (navbar_dark_skins.indexOf(color) > -1) { $main_header.addClass('navbar-dark') } else { $main_header.addClass('navbar-light') } $main_header.addClass(color) }) $navbar_variants.append($navbar_variants_colors) $container.append($navbar_variants) var $checkbox_container = $('<div />', { 'class': 'mb-4' }) var $navbar_border = $('<input />', { type : 'checkbox', value : 1, checked: $('.main-header').hasClass('border-bottom-0'), 'class': 'mr-1' }).on('click', function () { if ($(this).is(':checked')) { $('.main-header').addClass('border-bottom-0') } else { $('.main-header').removeClass('border-bottom-0') } }) $checkbox_container.append($navbar_border) $checkbox_container.append('<span>No Navbar border</span>') $container.append($checkbox_container) var sidebar_colors = [ 'bg-primary', 'bg-warning', 'bg-info', 'bg-danger', 'bg-success', 'bg-indigo', 'bg-navy', 'bg-purple', 'bg-fuchsia', 'bg-pink', 'bg-maroon', 'bg-orange', 'bg-lime', 'bg-teal', 'bg-olive' ] var sidebar_skins = [ 'sidebar-dark-primary', 'sidebar-dark-warning', 'sidebar-dark-info', 'sidebar-dark-danger', 'sidebar-dark-success', 'sidebar-dark-indigo', 'sidebar-dark-navy', 'sidebar-dark-purple', 'sidebar-dark-fuchsia', 'sidebar-dark-pink', 'sidebar-dark-maroon', 'sidebar-dark-orange', 'sidebar-dark-lime', 'sidebar-dark-teal', 'sidebar-dark-olive', 'sidebar-light-primary', 'sidebar-light-warning', 'sidebar-light-info', 'sidebar-light-danger', 'sidebar-light-success', 'sidebar-light-indigo', 'sidebar-light-navy', 'sidebar-light-purple', 'sidebar-light-fuchsia', 'sidebar-light-pink', 'sidebar-light-maroon', 'sidebar-light-orange', 'sidebar-light-lime', 'sidebar-light-teal', 'sidebar-light-olive' ] $container.append('<h6>Dark Sidebar Variants</h6>') var $sidebar_variants = $('<div />', { 'class': 'd-flex' }) $container.append($sidebar_variants) $container.append(createSkinBlock(sidebar_colors, function () { var color = $(this).data('color') var sidebar_class = 'sidebar-dark-' + color.replace('bg-', '') var $sidebar = $('.main-sidebar') sidebar_skins.map(function (skin) { $sidebar.removeClass(skin) }) $sidebar.addClass(sidebar_class) })) $container.append('<h6>Light Sidebar Variants</h6>') var $sidebar_variants = $('<div />', { 'class': 'd-flex' }) $container.append($sidebar_variants) $container.append(createSkinBlock(sidebar_colors, function () { var color = $(this).data('color') var sidebar_class = 'sidebar-light-' + color.replace('bg-', '') var $sidebar = $('.main-sidebar') sidebar_skins.map(function (skin) { $sidebar.removeClass(skin) }) $sidebar.addClass(sidebar_class) })) var logo_skins = navbar_all_colors $container.append('<h6>Brand Logo Variants</h6>') var $logo_variants = $('<div />', { 'class': 'd-flex' }) $container.append($logo_variants) var $clear_btn = $('<a />', { href: 'javascript:void(0)' }).text('clear').on('click', function () { var $logo = $('.brand-link') logo_skins.map(function (skin) { $logo.removeClass(skin) }) }) $container.append(createSkinBlock(logo_skins, function () { var color = $(this).data('color') var $logo = $('.brand-link') logo_skins.map(function (skin) { $logo.removeClass(skin) }) $logo.addClass(color) }).append($clear_btn)) function createSkinBlock(colors, callback) { var $block = $('<div />', { 'class': 'd-flex flex-wrap mb-3' }) colors.map(function (color) { var $color = $('<div />', { 'class': (typeof color === 'object' ? 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Q: Shopify API Variant not being returned with product_id attribute So I'm using the Shopify Gem to access the Shopify API and noticed that the product_id attribute is not being returned within the response body for a simple ShopifyAPI::Variant.find call. 1.9.3p194> ShopifyAPI::Variant.find(209901733) => #<ShopifyAPI::Variant:0x007fbf7225d3f0 @attributes={"barcode"=>nil, "compare_at_price"=>"198.00", "created_at"=>"2012-03-23T14:11:39+11:00", "fulfillment_service"=>"manual", "grams"=>1000, "id"=>209901733, "inventory_management"=>"shopify", "inventory_policy"=>"deny", "option1"=>"38", "option2"=>"Ivory Mini Twill", "option3"=>nil, "position"=>16, "price"=>"198.00", "requires_shipping"=>true, "sku"=>"3063", "taxable"=>true, "title"=>"38 / Ivory Mini Twill", "updated_at"=>"2013-04-24T10:25:27+10:00", "inventory_quantity"=>2}, @prefix_options={}, @persisted=true> According to the new documentation that has been published here, the product_id field should be returned. GET /admin/variants/#{id}.json Hide Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK { "variant": { "barcode": "1234_pink", "compare_at_price": null, "created_at": "2013-05-01T15:35:21-04:00", "fulfillment_service": "manual", "grams": 200, "id": 808950810, "inventory_management": "shopify", "inventory_policy": "continue", "option1": "Pink", "option2": null, "option3": null, "position": 1, "price": "199.00", "product_id": 632910392, "requires_shipping": true, "sku": "IPOD2008PINK", "taxable": true, "title": "Pink", "updated_at": "2013-05-01T15:35:21-04:00", "inventory_quantity": 10 } } A: It is in the json, but not in the ActiveResource that is created from the json. The reason is this code in the Variant activeresource: self.prefix = "/admin/products/:product_id/" def self.prefix(options={}) options[:product_id].nil? ? "/admin/" : "/admin/products/#{options[:product_id]}/" end If you want you can make your own class for fetching singleton Variants: module ShopifyAPI class VariantWithProduct < Base self.prefix = "/admin/" self.element_name = "variant" self.collection_name = "variants" end end and use this class to fetch single variants by id: ShopifyAPI::VariantWithProduct.find(xxxxxx)

Otići ili ostati u BiH? To je pitanje koje mnogi analiziraju posljednjih godina. Prema brojkama, za oko 90 tisuća ljudi od 2013. godine nije bilo dvojbi. Oni su odlučili svoju egzistenciju osigurati u nekoj drugoj zemlji, piše Večernji list BiH. Kao prvi razlog najčešće se ističe egzistencija, no kada cijele obitelji idu trbuhom za kruhom, i to one u kojoj rade i muž i žena, onda tu postoje i neki drugi razlozi. Sve češće se u tim slučajevima spominje riječ nepravda. Negativne brojke - Ljudi u BiH, kad završe visoke škole i ako nemaju nikakvu mogućnost zaposlenja ići će. Sve više priča se o ljudima s poslom koji idu. Ljudi ovo više ne mogu podnijeti jer je atmosfera tako loša, da kažem nepodnošljiva, govori za Večernji list predsjednik Udruge za unaprijeđenje življenja Futura iz Mostara Marin Bago. Ističe i podatke koje su objavile neke agencije da će kraj 2018. Hrvatsku dočekati manje od 4, a BiH manje od 3 milijuna ljudi. - To su poražavajući podaci i pitanje je hoćemo li mi uopće imati dovoljno djece i dovoljno kadra u budućnosti. To je sada već ogroman problem. U Mostaru imate dvostruko manje djece nego prije dvadeset godina i to bi trebao biti alarmantan podatak, ali mi u javnosti i u medijima ne vidimo da nekog to previše zanima... kažem vam, ako imamo ovakvo iseljavanje bilo koja politika pada u vodu, moramo povesti računa o tome, govori Bago. Spominje i rješenja koja nisu skupa, ali bi mogla biti efikasna. - Evo krenuti ćemo od Zračne luke Mostar koja nema redovitih letova. Uspostavom redovitih letova ne bi odlazile čitave obitelji, možda bi išao jedan član koji bi se mogao vraćati za vikend. Pa brojni naši umirovljenici radije bi živjeli ovdje nego u Njemačkoj, ali nemaju tu infrastrukturu kako bi bili povezani sa svojom obitelji ili onima koji ostaju. Nijedan grad ne može biti razvijen bez funkcionalne zračne luke. I tu nema previše filozofiranja, već se posao mora raditi, ističe predsjednik Udruge za unaprijeđenje življenja Futura Bago. Nedavno je odlazak mladih iz BiH komentirao i Mate Lončar, predsjednik Vijeća mladih FBiH. Perspektiva u BiH - Najveći problem je taj što mladi ljudi u BiH ne vide perspektivu jer imamo državu koja ne funkcionira. Tako i mladi, koji imaju koliko-toliko osiguranu egzistenciju i radno mjesto, napuštaju ovu državu. Potrebno je da država pokaže kako joj je stalo do mladih, da ulaže maksimalne napore za njihovu budućnost na ovim područjima, kazao je, između ostalog, Lončar za Večernjak. Podsjetimo, osim statistike koja pokazuje da su tisuće obitelji prošle godine napustile BiH, problem je i prirodni pad koji sve teže pogađa BiH. Tako su podaci koje smo analizirali pokazali da je u samo prva tri mjeseca ove godine rođeno tek 3977 beba, a broj umrlih je 5617. Brojke govore da situacija postaje katastrofična.

Russian feast is not just eating alone. What a swine one would be just pigging without a proper, highly spiritual entertainment that involves historical memory about past glory? Like evens of Red Terror, celebrated in Moscow this weekend. Muscovites were especially amused by reconstruction of stalinist arrests, where any patriotic ruskie could try himself in a role of a public enemy in hands of NKVD under cheering and booing of patriotic crowd – all eager to rush towards a new GULAG. Note a jolly look on faces of “arrested” ruskies. Looks like real-life NKVD thugs (now named as “FSB”) are about to have much trouble with their prisoners choosing a proper torture. No matter how deep a cannon ramrod will be in russian ass or how hard a hand will be nailed to the table, a true patriot of Russia will always meet hardships of Putin’s GULAG as profoundly and thoroughly enjoyable. With “davai-davai” cheering. Showoff mock-crane flight of KGB thug putin has caused a lot of praise amongst brainless libtard junkies. I wonder how their farter will explode when the real russian wildlife treatment comes to light. Here, ruskie polar station staff planted an improvised explosive devise to bear’s food and filmed the result with traditional joyful “russian mat” imbecile comments. Not something new for a nation of sadistic subhumans with long-term traditions of animal abuse (example #1, example #2) and perverted terrorism. It’s hard to find an expert that wasn’t delighted with sanctions as ingenious attempt to stop Kremlin’s world domination campaign. According to mainstream opinion, people of Russia should become enraged by shortage of quality foods enough to end thug Putin’s regime with some kind of Salami Revolution. It’s indeed fancy to build castles in the air, running utopia errands without a personal responsibility for consequences. Like in 1990s, when jolly pioneers of Western democracy rushed towards ruins of evil empire to teach ruskies how to choose own rulers. To say it ended up in a disaster would be an underestimating. In either case, trouble is caused by excluding basic facts from consideration – mostly because of mainstream stereotypes that forbid speaking the truth about “people that helped to defeat Nazism”. But why really? By all definitions, the fact of “victory” does not and CAN NOT guarantee moral superiority per se. (And BTW Nazism is very popular in modern Russia where it has mutated into truly russian form.) Returning to the topic, not every nation has the same consumerist (social) priorities. Some don’t have those at all, except for cheap booze (or GULAG pigsty). That’s why Western fancy theories fail so often in russian reality. Recent regulations that ruskies enforced in response to Western sanctions not only ban import of certain groceries. Now, it is also forbidden to consume blacklisted foods even if they were smuggled to Russia somehow. If discovered, they are subject to disposal. Like that. Thanks to Internet, now anyone can see how even the last shithole tries to stage traditional potyemkin village showoff. It Tatarstan, glorious and vigilant russian police managed to stop evil Hungarian geese from bringing pleasure to some unpatriotic customers who still dare to disobey bans imposed by Great Wise Leader. Meanwhile in russian supermarkets: It’s not the first time when ruskies practice war on food. A page from the memoir that you should already know about by now shows huge piles of corn confiscated from farmers, rotting under open sky in Bessarabia (East Romania). This happened shortly after its annexation by russian thugs in 1940. The following pages show us what happened in famine-ridden Siberia in 1942 – far away from the frontline. Commie scumbag is beating peasants who are trying to collect a few seeds left after harvesting the field. Another commie scumbag (“teacher” by the way) teaches little ruskies how to be a true patriot. Burning down unharvested fields was a common wartime practice, while red bullshitters were going full-auto about “hunger” and “wartime shortage” both for domestic and international auditoriums to have a bunch of useful anti-Nazi idiots singing to their tune. And of course, always having luxury groceries for commie top dogs during starvation in Leningrad. I don’t think Nazis could even hold a candle to such an “art” of transgression against own people. Who, BTW, in case of Russia always faced it with dumb conformism, if not fanatical support. Speaking of which… A flashback from History. Proud commie serfs are protesting against humanitarian aid from West Germany. Their slogan says “It’s better to have russian crust of bread than a chunk of fatty meat from FRG!” Modern days again. A good friend of mine sent me this photo made in Moscow. Those dumpster divers are NOT bums; actually, they are happy supporters of neo-soviet thuggery. Such patriotic dumpster diving can be observed near almost every waste food site in Moscow (near supermarkets etc). They prefer to eat waste rather than live in dignity, respecting neighbors. Like they preferred to leave orphans for certain death rather than letting “decadent West” to adopt them. Since long ago, I’ve been telling the truth about this nation of commie thugs despite all asslicking trend. Now it is coming out the hard way. Having an option to start evil empire restoration which ruskies consider an only way to be “great”, they would gladly exchange everything they have for a bleak chance to shit all over the world. But most likely, death somewhere in fields of a free Ukraine and dog’s burial. Or fatal poisoning with garbage “food”, often dangerous for consumption even in its shelf phase. Or existence worse than death – for a human being, of course. A true russian never complains if everyone has to starve or eat shit! (And never asks why government has luxury imported groceries despite all anti-Western hysteria and let’s-eat-shit-for-russia campaign, or why spawn of thug Putin and his lackeys is living in “enemy” countries.) “We are ready to even die miserably, to help putin!” Well, if ruskies want to die for their kingpin (who deserves gallows by any civilized laws) together with insane world domination plans embedded in their essence, we the reasonable people can only greet such a will and should help them in any way possible. My apologies to regular readers for the delay in this promised publication. Recent events were serious enough to distract me (and everyone else), but not to make me forget. The need to return to this matter arises again – even stronger than before. This article is an attempt to share must-have dissident experience accumulated during the rise of neo-soviet regime in the Internet. As it’s very hard for the reader unfamiliar with daily life in Russia to understand everything at once, the information will come in logcally ordered parts. ——————————————————————————————————————— You may be not old enough to remember how the World Wide Web came around, but thanks to technological slowdown traditional for Russia, I’ve managed to see the world of computers literally growing from imported seeds before my own eyes, without being as old as WWW. The school where I had my studies possessed only one computer with Internet access. Its single dial-up modem had been regularly taken by teacher “for preservation” to her home. There was no LAN at all. The best of classroom computers were battered Pentium II-based machines with pirated software, which looked like wonders of technology compared to common 486s abused to near-wreck condition. Without “special” connections, no one could hope for more than 2 hours of laboratory access per week and even this quota was questionable as some of machines wouldn’t start at all, forcing almost everyone to share workplace with mate(s). Most of teen ruskies had a little interest in computer though, preferring vodka/drugs “social networking” in dirty alleys. Internet was a businessman’s tool and a geek’s shelter. That was Moscow, the beginning of 21st century! (And a typical russian school, they have no educational segregation like in U.S.) Nevertheless, comparing those times with modern reality one can see it wasn’t that bad. At least roadside drunk that Russia was 15 years ago isn’t a thug that modern Russia is. In wrong hands, things originally supposed to enhance life can’t bring any good. Made into caste privileges and/or tools of repressions, technology ends up finally turned against its own creators. This happened in each and every repressive society, and Russia has become a champion of such abuse. Technology plus thugs equals disaster. The most ironic thing here is a calamitous result of Western 1990s campaign to turn criminal subhuman society into “democratic” country. Obviously, they forgot that giving human items to apes does NOT turn them into humans. When ruskie gets a car (and driving license for traditional bribe), his usual “fun” is get boozed and drive like blindfolded madman with predictable results. Getting a gun (in Russia, handguns are available only to “police” thugs, licensed security, military officers and government as a caste privilege), he exercises target practice on someone whom he just doesn’t like. Or if it’s a yokel who can afford only a shotgun (rifles are allowed only after 5 years of shotgun possession), he blasts his own family members after vodka warm-up. In a typical russian village where I spent several summers, such things happened in every next generation of natives. Internet, which has become a natural part of daily life for the civilized world, is not an exception. Continue in your imagination what happens if ruskie gets his ape paws on a device with modern, fast Internet connection. Many ruskies even admit all that – non-directly, of course. They praise Soviet era as time of “order and stability”. It really was a bit cleaner and safer in USSR, but only because all things were damn hard to get or repair. One who wrecked his car couldn’t hope for same-week replacement even being a communist party member. In general, untermenschen just had much less opportunities for abuse. Nearly three hundred people are butchered by russian terrorists. (Let alone Ukrainians killed in so-called “DNR/LNR” and Crimea, but who in this “civilized” world cared about them before?) The whole Europe is about to be devoured by mad russian brute. Ukraine is desperately defending itself and BTW asses of hippie Europeans (who continue screaming about “peace”) with no nukes, mostly still Soviet army stock and catastrophic infiltration. (To be perfectly clear, they got a little help from the U.S. but this isn’t something to change the entire situation. Nevertheless, Ukrainian guys do pretty good for this one.) But some chav means to UN much more than even a solid chance for the entire world to go up in radioactive flames just because crazy ruskies with their thug dictator have another megalomaniac hysteria. Back in Europe, when I was young and stupid, I tried to complain to UNHCR about mistreatment and multiple violations during asylum proceedings (for example, decisions on my case were made by scumbags who were either ethnic ruskies or kept their families there). And you guess what? My letter to Swedish UNHCR office was answered by another high-rank ruskie asshole (already from Sweden) who said that UNHCR has nothing to do with it and I should complain to local court. Which was in fact under command of aforementioned russian-loving scum, even “judges” there preserved their jobs since times of USSR. Just another proof of negative need for Unbounded Nonsense the UN is. Since the very moment of its creation, usefulness was quite debatable. Back then, its founders were dumb enough to consider Stalin better than Hitler and recognize murderous commie thugs as civilized nation. Now, with libtards taking over the West, it’s getting even worse. An ideal world according to UN looks like a Frankenstein made from Detroit gang-ridden slums, putin’s neo-Soviet Russia, African “independent” black racist states and, last but not least, Euro-castrate socialism to power the entire system. Elitist bullshitters definitely gonna have one Hell of a work here: blabbering mawkish statements, condemning resistance against brutality as “brutality”, feeding everyone with taxes pumped out of common sheeple who must sing “everything is fine” UN-approved mantra 24/7. Many details are still unclear in this last of loud interracial encounters, now pushed into a civil war by both black and white racists, but one thing here is already known for sure. Or has been even before all that. Those who are the loudest on gun bans/restrictive laws/rights of thugs/etc. either came right directly from street gang, or they can’t imagine a single damn thing about real life, never experiencing what means to encounter ape-like creatures who consider murder, harassment and rape “fun”. Libtards never learn. Not so long ago, they were mourning death of “poor little 17-years-old kid” Trayvon Martin with a mile-long criminal history, who had nothing against getting on high with cheap street-made drugs, stealing and then assaulting some unfortunate man, slamming his head into sidewalk. Age means very little when crime matters. In this oh-so-civilized 21st century “innocent kids” do things that could disgust even some Wild West desperadoes. I’ve already said what I think about self-defense, the same comes for preserving Law and Order. You mess with law-abiding people, you get expected response regardless of your ethnicity. Ideally, this rule should be enforced everywhere but in the real world, caste societies stomping on people’s Dignity are majority. Gun-grabbing UN libtards could have been satisfied with things they already have in EU but just as commies, they won’t cool it until they see the last remaining man give up his guns and bow down to them. I’m no American, but I know the difference between being armed and not. Between living in pro-gun, neutral and anti-gun countries. From my own life experience. So here’s my personal advice to all lovers of ape rules (where big fists decide everything and criminals are “equal” to law-abiding people). Pack your stuff and go to anti-gun commie-loving politically correct Europe. And please, take your beloved chavs with you. You both are welcome here. One can run amok, break into houses, mash people, torture them, kick them to death for “fun” and get away with nothing. Especially being a… well, having a certain skin color. In the worst case (if someone messes up his victim especially nasty or decides to go Breivik), upset officials will provide a taxpayer-funded elite sanatorium (called “prison” in Europe) for continuous rest. But, there is still a little catch: nothing will be guaranteed when ruskies come. Living in hippie libtard society has its own consequences. Another addition to the gallery of shame. A new personal putin’s lackey is named Steven Seagall. Looks like pedophile terrorist Putin went completely desperate for keeping his fake machismo. Queer Wolff, old fat drunk Depardieu and libtard imbecile Duchovny obviously failed to do the trick, so now russian top dog is gathering “tough guys” around himself in last attempts of BS upkeep. A word for those who still consider themselvers “conservatives” and worship thug Putin like “comrade Seagall”, being in fact nothing but commies. No way, ruskie lackeys. Now even the commoners know who your idol is. The only serious problem remained for the people is to remember what must be done with traitors, but it’s just a matter of time already. Nobody wants to be mashed by putinist thugs or live in russian pigstall (except for you who plan to get caste privileges by kissing KGB arse). And only a complete imbecile or mercenary bullshitter can blabber about “manliness” (let alone “brotherly” feelings) of those who hide behind human shields and boast with it. In fact, even young girls from the Maidan have much more manliness than you terrorist-loving commie scum. They weren’t afraid to fight against the regime of pro-russian thugs when nothing has been guaranteed, while you were praising KGB terrorist dictator like his personal castrate fag slaves. BTW, Russia is one of the most anti-gun countries. So shove Kalashnikovup your commie ass together with russian citizenship you are so eager to get, KGB terrorist worshiper, Night Whelps buddy, “brother” of murderers and thieves Steve Scumbag! Russian lackey Wolff will definitely punch himself in envy, watching new “Potyemkin village”-styled russian beer commercial with a top celebrity asslicker David Duchovny who outperformed Wolff with BS so old and trashed that even ruskies must get drunk to believe it. Scumbag is quick to change sides between Ukraine and Russia. Even quicker than EU politicians, trained to bend over. Hey you commie-loving elitist libtard! How about you buy one-way ticket to your beloved cattleland, kiss Putin’s KGB terrorist ass together with your drunk commie swine colleague Depardieu and BE PROUD OF the most recent russian showoff in Ukraine? Though the peace was established at our land, there are still some scumbags left, who are longing for chaos, disorder, war… And they live amongst us, make shopping in same places, use the same public transport… You may know individuals, who were against returning Crimea to Russian Federation or participated in regional “Maidan”. Such individuals must be immediately reported to FSB, located at the address: Simferopol, Franco blvd, 13 or by phone, call 37-42-76 (anonymity is possible). We must stop the fascism!” Russian bolshevism with complete set of its subhuman features is not an ideology – it is a congenital nature. If even just one ruskie stukach survives deserved nuking of their commieland, he will most likely rat on himself as “evil Nazi warmonger, capitalist spy, public enemy and American mercenary”.

How do you choose... How do you choose the people you talk to on the forums (this and any other)? Do you look at their profiles and base it on when thay look like? Do you base it off how they describe themselves? Do you base it off their responces to others and how they "act" on the actual forums? (rant follows)The reason I ask this is that I was hurt today when I signed onto my myspace account to find a message from a person I was trying to be friends with. He had already accepted me to his friends list, so I figured I would try to strike up some sort of conversation. His responce was "Look I allowed you to be on my friends list but what makes you think I want to talk to someone as fat and ugly as you? Just look and dont talk ok." I promptly removed him from my friends list and blocked him. Now even though I didn't personally know him, it was still hurtful for me. Especially since I have overcome (mostly) many issues I have about self immage and self worth. Ok, this does sound a bit whiney to me. I just needed somewhere to vent and maybe get others perspectives about this. That really sucks. He's one of the jerks who think the anonymity of the internet gives him license to be insensitive and rude. At least you got his number right away before you wasted too much of your time on him. Someone who acts that way probably has some issues of their own. Good riddance, I'd say. But to answer your question, I usually pick people to contact based on what's in their profile and not just their picture. If they are from my area, age, interests, etc. You know, common ground. I also like to get a feel for what they are like first by checking out their posts. Freakyninjamonkey: What a drag about your MySpace situation. That guy must not know the meaning of respect and common decency. Experiences like the one you posted keep me from contacting guys that I don't know. None of us like the sting of rejection. There are times that I post to a topic and a discussion ensues with another member. When it turns into a debate or conversation, sometimes you get to know a person's personality. When you post back and forth with the same individuals over time, a network of acquaintances may result. In some cases, we actually make real friends. I don't make "cold calls" to guys based on their profiles. I only react to what they post, how they express themselves, and go from there. First off Freakyninjamokey, Your not fat and ugly. Don't let assholes like that get you down. He doesn't deserve, a friend like you. Your too good for him. His loss. Personally, I would talk to anyone, at least once. That is the only way to get to know someone, but there profile, and how they behave, in the forums is a good telltale sign. Guys that only talk to you based on looks and age, are jerks. Anyway, most of the guys on here will treat you with respect, so your in a good place. People are rude...especially when they can sit behind a computer and not have to look you in the face when they say something. I usually talk to everyone and just weed out the ones who end up being jerks, you can't afford to live life with a filter on your interaction, you miss out on a lot of wisdom and laughs that way FNM, that guy did you a favor exposing his true self to you like that. There is no physical trait that could be as ugly as his personality. And something you can do is stop looking at your physical "flaws" as things to boo-hoo over and look at them as challenges that you are gonna fix. Enjoy your victory over these challenges everyday as you do what is necessary, diet and exercise. Be prouder of the accomplishment, than of the results themselves. Achieving your goals says something more important about who you are, than just the fact of trimming down and muscling up. Those are the desserts of the better inner you. Then go out and fuck all those hunks, like a bunny! But be safe, of course. ... But before you go casting huge stones at people, may I point out that I wrote a long response on your thread "New to honest exercising...", and you havent so much as acknowledged it, much less thanked me for it. Not so much as a "kiss my foot," "go to hell," nothing! I guess I am just repeating my unappreciated behavior on here again. D'oh! I generally don't chat too much on websites due to time/schedule for the most part. I do find myself really enjoying the forums on RealJock (especially those who post frequently such as MikePhil, GQJock, McGay, Caslon to name a few). I was picked on a lot as a kid. I remember my momma (that's southern-speak for Mother) saying "sticks and stones will break your bones but words can never hurt you". Sorry momma. But you were wrong! Broken bones will heal but the hurt from words sometimes linger much longer. When I was younger, I spent a lot of time internalizing what people said about me. As I've gotten older, I've grown and learned to ignore hurtful comments (which is not always easy) and that the best defense as Caslon points out is to stay focused on my goals. Karma has a way of biting negative people in the butt. You probably won't be there to see it but you can rest assured that it will happen! How can you possibly be upset that this jackass doesn't want to be your friend? Do you have any IDEA how damaged a person he would have to be to write that? Do you realize how little he likes himself if he rejects other people as friends because their LOOKS might not measure up to his standard? Do you realize that he is saying "I am personally so worthless that if my friends aren't attractive people then I have absolutely no way to validate my own existence"? Think of it this way, guy...imagine that you invested time and emotional energy into this nobody, and then you found out later what a festering swamp he really was. Aren't you glad he saved you time and trouble? not tryin to sound like a jackass. butis the regular process to get on someone's friend list and THEN talk to them? personally, i know that i don't add people to my buddy list without chattin em up a bit, or at least a few emails. as for finding people. like just about everyone else, i judge their profile blurb first off, then forums and chat can help to see if they are what they say they are. that douchebag u got in contact with is a popularity whore. he probably put u on his friend list just cuz he feels special having more and more people there, even if he doesnt know them. Dude, that guy was a douche. But, it is the Internet and you are going to run into people like that. I've been a RealJock member for over a year. In the last week I've had 2 guys block me in chat. One guy misunderstood that I was making a joke and took it personally. I'd NEVER been blocked before. Then a couple of days later a guy I've chatted with before and hasn't been on in a while IMs me. He has his cam on and I turn my cam on. I assume he's seen me before. We chat for a bit, then he says he'll be back. A few minutes later, I see he's blocked his audio and video from me. Go figure. When it comes to forums, I respond to threads I think are interesting or thought provoking or funny. Sure, there are some guys I chat up because they're attractive, but I also look for guys who have something intelligent to say. That is such RUDE, CRASS, undignified, belittling and stupid behavior on that guy's part and I agree with so many here that you are better off withOUT that jerk. Yes, I am sure if he bases even people he simply chats with on being "hot" in his eyes, than he must have a life full of shallow, unsophisticated A-holes like himself and Karma will certainly catch up.He will probably become one of those people you know about that hang out at the piano bars, smoking, drinking and bitter that they have no friends and that the young cute ones will have nothing to do with them after his looks go. If you are a good person and have friendship or simply intelligent chat to offer, there are plenty of NICE people here that WILL talk with you. If a guys first question to me on here is shouw us your knob, or if his prole is just full of shit I will probably ignore them otherwise I will chat to moat As to your conundrum and are you worth it, there are very few people on this planet that dont have self esteem or self worth issues they just deal with it either conciously or subconciousy. But you know all that and sometimes some dickhead like the one ya mention gets under your skin. So do what I did, this one guy I really like on another site did a similar thing and then blew me out of the water, so what did I do? For me I went about losing the weight and bulding my self confidence (I have the books and CD's of Mo Shapiro to thank for that and would reccomend them). Anyhow 12 months later arrogant arsehole then contacted me, and like an elephant I never forgot, so I led him down the garden path and right royally shat on him from a great height in front of everyone and made him look as shallow and pathetic as he was. I dont go for revenge normaly but this was a classic chance and the first opportunity to move away from that "creating an air of self confidence" to it being second nature. Never done it since and wont again but boy was it worth it. SO let this experience be the one that motivates you to get to your goal, when times are going shit or the training and diet are not going to plan, let this thing be a positive thing to drive you on

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This article is more than 4 years old This article is more than 4 years old The long-running newspaper roundup, What The Papers Say, is being silenced 60 years after it first aired. The weekly programme analysing press coverage of the week’s major stories is to come to an end next month due to cost-cutting, said Radio 4. What the Papers Say has been running on BBC radio since 2010 after being dropped from television a couple of years earlier. The programme had run as a TV series for 52 years on various channels including ITV and Channel 4 before it was given the chop by BBC2 in 2008. Newspapers now the least popular medium for news, says Ofcom study Read more But it was given a new lease of life on radio two years later when the then Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, decided to bring it back for that year’s general election. For many journalists and political commentators, its demise will mark the end of an era. Its simple format – actors reading out some of the best quotations and coverage from the papers, framed with comments from a different journalist presenting the show each week – was required listening for years. There has been speculation about how relevant the programme is in an era of declining print circulation, with more and more listeners consuming news online. Radio 4 also now has The Media Show, which often covers the press. In its heyday, What the Papers Say was a tour de force in the newspaper industry, even spawning its own lively awards ceremony until 2008. But the show has had a peripatetic life. It began on ITV and was made by Granada Television before moving to Channel 4 when the channel launched in 1982. It was dropped by the commercial station seven years later but immediately rescued by BBC2. A Radio 4 spokesman said: “Across the BBC we have to make significant savings, and whilst we’re doing everything we can to protect the range and breadth of Radio 4’s output, some on-air changes are unfortunately inevitable. “From April 2016, Westminster Hour will be extended to finish at 11pm and we’ll broadcast special What the Papers Say episodes around selected editorial moments. We’ll continue to review the papers on Radio 4’s Broadcasting House programme on Sunday mornings and look at the headlines on Today throughout the week.” There was sadness among many journalists at the news: Evening Standard columnist, Economist senior editor and radio presenter Anne McElvoy said its late time slot had “guaranteed” its demise. anne mcelvoy (@annemcelvoy) Sad that "What the Papers Say" is ending on R4. Was put on at mad time on Sunday night after a lengthy political show. Guaranteed euthansia. McElvoy, who has appeared on the show, also said she enjoyed working with the actors who read out the stories. anne mcelvoy (@annemcelvoy) 2) The best bit of What the Papers Say was of course working w the actors. Including one whose other work featured doing porno audio books. Iain Dale also lamented its demise:

RHOA’s Kandi Burruss Describes the Stupidity of Living the Glamorous Life Just the other day, we wrote on FJT about Phaedra Parks, star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, whose husband, Apollo Nida, was recently arrested on charges of bank fraud and identity theft. That led to an interesting Financial Lovemaking conversation about the importance of choosing a financially-responsible mate, and also avoiding the trappings of financial gluttony. Another RHOA star, Kandi Burruss, offers a different perspective. During an interview on the Hot 97 Morning Show, Burruss explained that being a reality TV star is not as financially rewarding as some might think. She also used it as a way to explain why she works to live below her means. Here’s what she had to say, according to Madamnoire.com: “On a new reality show they’re not making anything,” she said. “If they are getting anything, it may be like $2,500 per episode to $5,000, at the most. Most times, like say for instance the women who started out on our show, in the beginning they didn’t get anything for that first year. They got like $5,000 for the whole season just for the use of their house. When I first came on they didn’t really hardly pay me anything either. A lot of those shows do not pay a lot of money.” Kandi mentions that anyone thinking about going into reality TV should be sure to have something to promote during their appearance. She says that the show is more like an infomercial than anything. I’ve heard the same things behind closed doors. Often, reality TV shows are short-lived and aren’t very well compensated. But people who don’t understand business become excited about the idea of being on TV without having any kind of plan for long-term financial stability. This can be a recipe for disaster. “This is what I always tell people: Don’t go on the show thinking you’re going to make a big lick off of the salary. Think of it more so as your infomercial. How are you going to make this show sell your business or your product. If not, you’re just going on there to make a a** of yourself.” Kandi also said that her mother gave her a great foundation on the importance of keeping your budget in check and living below your means. She says that just because times are good, that doesn’t mean you should live high on the hog and set yourself up for financial failure. “I was looking at financial books and everything since I was a teenager because my mom was always, ‘Don’t put your eggs in one basket.’ And I didn’t go to college, so you get kind of scared like, ‘Okay, I’m getting all of this money right now, but what I am gonna do now?’ I didn’t want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn’t making the same money, I couldn’t afford my lifestyle. So that’s the first thing, you gotta live below your means.” “Let’s say for instance if you’re just starting out, it’s some people who can afford $1,000 apartment and go get a $1,000 apartment. That would not be me. If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I’m going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in. A lot of people handicap themselves from being able to go after their dreams because of the kind of lifestyle they become accustomed to.” Financial Juneteenth lessons from this story: 1) The words “rich” and “famous” don’t always go hand-in-hand. The worst thing in the world is to be famous and have everyone think you have more money than you actually have. This happens a lot for entertainers who have no understanding of business models. 2) Conservatism is the key to financial survival: Unfortunately, materialistic culture promoted through music and movies promotes the opposite, leaving us looking really stupid later on down the line. 3) You must be your own business and brand in this ever-changing economic landscape: Even if someone gives you a job, always find a way to create your own job. Kandi seems to get this, and that’s why I am proud of her. This is why I LOVE Kandi. This is practical wisdom that I almost never hear about especially from the entertainment world. She doesn't put on for nobody and only does what makes sense for her and her family. Riley is def getting that sound background that a lot of black kids don't, or maybe kids period I dunno. You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot create polls in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum

Photograph by Andrew Scrivani / The New York Times / Redux Hi! Welcome to the Stetson Café. The specials are on the board—I would highly recommend the veal shank. Also, we’re sort of known for our burger. It’s a half-pound of grass-fed beef, your choice of blue or Gruyère cheese, and it comes with our signature house-made ketchup. That’s right. The ketchup here at the Stetson is made in-house with freshly diced tomatoes, a pinch of sugar, a touch of paprika, and it’s disgusting. It truly is gross. Nobody likes it, and all the customers secretly wish we just served Heinz ketchup instead. I guess you could say that our ketchup is a homage to an American classic—a foul, grotesque homage. It’s the 2011 remake of “Footloose” of ketchups. It’s a viscous concoction that gets its rough, mealy texture from chopped-up anchovies and horseradish, and you’d have to be a true sadist to want to put that shit in your mouth. Bumpy—“bumpy” is a word I would use to describe our ketchup. Also “fucked up.” Here’s the thing: When the ketchup comes out, you’re going to think to yourself, This doesn’t look like ketchup. And then you’ll ask me, “Wait, I’m sorry, is this the ketchup?” And I’ll look at you and say, “Yup, that’s the ketchup.” And then you’ll look down at the ketchup and think, This is some weird-ass ketchup. And you’ll be completely right. It is weird-ass. But it’s a-hundred-per-cent fresh, and it a-hundred-per-cent sucks. Oh! Did I mention that our garbage ketchup has a spicy kick to it? Well, it does. It contains curried pickled cauliflower. Mmmmm. One taste will take you back to those days when you were a kid and your dad would grill up some burgers and you’d take a bite and think, Man, this ketchup is great, but you know what’s missing? Curried pickled cauliflower. Remember those days? Of course you don’t. They never happened. Now, when I first mentioned that we make our own ketchup, you looked excited, no doubt because you thought, Wow, what a fresh, organic experience I’m about to have. I can’t wait to finally enjoy real, homemade ketchup. My entire life I’ve been conditioned to enjoy a corporatized version of ketchup and I have been deprived of what ketchup actually is supposed to taste like. Couple of things: one, don’t think about ketchup like that. It’s ketchup. Two, the proper flavor of ketchup isn’t something people miss out on; people miss out on seeing the Beatles live at Shea Stadium. And weird people miss out on seeing the new Jack Reacher movie on opening night. Three, maybe we just need to accept that Heinz—a very large, multinational corporation—just happened to perfect ketchup. That’s why it has a crap-ton of money. It makes really good ketchup. It is No. 1, and we are No. 4,677,843, just below the ooze that streams out of the alien’s mouth and onto Sigourney Weaver’s face. And above that is Hunts. By the way, your initial enthusiasm about our ketchup isn’t completely your fault. I, as your waiter, am absolutely complicit. When I told you we do our own little spin on ketchup, I smiled a smug, self-satisfied smile, as if to say, “Welcome to the exclusive world of D.I.Y. ketchup.” Well, who the fuck am I, you know? You’d have to be a real piece of dog shit to smile that smugly about anything, especially ketchup. Truth be told, folks, I’m not a good man. Yesterday I asked my grandmother if she forgot to send my birthday check, and I have definitely paid for sex. So, anyway, that’s our ketchup. It sucks. And nothing—not the exposed brick in this restaurant, the open kitchen that allows you to watch the cooks at work, or my pathological self-assured smile—can make it good. Now that that’s out of the way, here at the Stetson we also do our own little spin on chicken nuggets. They’re made from grass-fed, free-range chicken; the nuggets are fatty and gummy; you can see the gristle when you bite into them; and, if you want chicken nuggets that taste good, there is a McDonald’s about three blocks away.

Q: LSI RAID card commissioned hot spare My company has an Open-E based file server (Celeros) that uses near-line SAS drives in RAID6 configuration managed by an LSI 9266-8i RAID card. We currently have one "dedicated hot spare" drive, no "global hot spare" drives, and one very strange "commissioned hot spare" drive that appears to be built into the array. The array is comprised of 15 drives, 16 if you include the global hot spare. The MegaRAID Storage Manager interface shows those 15 drives as part of the array and the dedicated hot spare as a separate drive. The virtual drive comprised of 15 drives shows total capacity as 23.645TB, which looks to be 15 drives x 1.819TB each, minus 2 parity drives for RAID6. As far as I can tell, the drive labeled "commissioned hot spare" is counted as part of the total capacity of the array. On the information page for that drive, it says "Commisioned spare: yes" and "emergency spare: no". This is very confusing, and I've been looking for days for clarification. I'm hoping someone out there has run into this and figured out what it means... My question is whether this drive is part of the array proper, or if it is still a hot spare and can be safely removed. We are looking to use the spare disk slots in the machine to build a second array with bigger drives and migrate our data to the new array. That extra slot would come in handy for the migration, and I need to know if it is safe to remove it from the array without triggering a rebuild or migration... The company that made the file server seems to not know, and there is virtually nothing for documentation on "commissioned" hot spares by LSI, only global and dedicated hot spares... A: Based on looking through some datasheets here, here, and here, it would appear that LSI uses the term "commissioned" to describe a hot spare that has been put into active duty, for one reason or another. In general, your analysis of the array capacity is probably the most reliable fact here - if the array capacity only makes sense when you include that drive's capacity, then that drive is probably an active member of that array. Based on both of these pieces of information, I would confidently say that if you remove that drive, the array is going to fall into a degraded state. Since you're using RAID6, you wouldn't have too much to worry about, but you should definitely figure out how this happened in the first place. My best advice would be if you still have active support for this setup, get on the phone with the vendor until they give you an answer.

Own This Movie Downloads Rent The next hot, gay, FTM porn from the guys at Trannywood Pictures has arrived! The action continues at San Francisco's premier gay sex club, and we rejoin the guys of Couch Surfers as they pair up for some seriously hot one-on-one action. Bonus footage includes the 2009 SF Trannyfest Film Festival version of the Dex and Cupid scene. Cast & Stars: Couch Surfers 2 - Trans Men In Action Comments on Couch Surfers 2 - Trans Men In Action Editor's Review Here at HotMoviesforHer.com we love us some Trannywood Pictures. I mean, there are very few companies making great queer porn and these guys were one of the first. Knowing this, I can't even begin to explain how it is that we haven't reviewed this movie before. I mean, I bugged the crap out of director and all around awesome dude Ian Sparks to get a copy and then never bothered to share my opinions on the site! Anyways, on to the review! Like the original, Couch Surfers 2 features a hot mix of cis dudes and trans guys getting it on and it is equally awesome. You'll see a few of the men from other Trannywood flixxx, like Mark Van Helsing and Dex Hardlove, and some new studs I can only hope will show up in CS3. Dex Hardlove and Cupid kick things off in a really hot scene. I've had a crush on Hardlove for years now, so it's no surprise I loved it. That boy is one hell of a top and I'm pretty sure Cupid would back up that statement after the pounding he receives. You really can't go wrong with any of the pairings - I mean when people are this into the action, it's bound to be hot. Mark Van Helsing and Peter Pleas are fan-fucking-tastic as are Ian Sparks and the adorable Lubeboy. Watching Sparks swallow Lubeboy's cock before giving up his ass was definitely a high point for me. One thing to point out, and we usually do when talking about Trannywood, is how hot they make safe sex. While a lot of studios use condoms, there aren't many who incorporate dams, gloves and condoms the same way they do. It's hot yet educational and who am I to complain about that! There's even a scene where you get to see two men discuss the fact that they won't be using any safer sex barriers. Imagine a world where we all talked about things like this before getting busy... Overall, this is another fantastic offering from the dudes at Trannywood. If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, I highly suggest it.

Story highlights Bill Maher and Sam Harris set off a fierce debate about Islam Instead of attacking critics, one imam challenged American Muslims Imam himself has been under attack from conservatives The mosque in Roxbury was crowded past capacity, with about 1,200 college students, urban hipsters and East Africans lining the hallways and front stairs. They wanted to hear Imam Suhaib Webb, resident scholar of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and widely considered one of the country's most influential Muslims , respond to Sam Harris and Bill Maher, who recently called Islam the "mother lode of bad ideas" and compared Muslims to the Mafia. The lanky, blue-eyed imam, a convert originally from Oklahoma, is known for tackling taboo topics and spicing his sermons with pop culture references. Before Friday's sermon, the last time the Roxbury mosque had been this crowded, Webb said, was when he preached about the finale of "Breaking Bad." (On the Sunday after his sermon, Webb, who has extensive training in classical Islamic learning, answered religious questions on Twitter about "The Walking Dead.") Instead of attacking Maher and Harris, though, Webb challenged his fellow Muslims. "It's code red," he preached last Friday, pounding the minbar for emphasis. "People do not like us, and we need to get with it!" JUST WATCHED The truth about Islam: bigotry vs. facts Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH The truth about Islam: bigotry vs. facts 10:32 JUST WATCHED Fareed's Take: Does Islam have a problem? Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Fareed's Take: Does Islam have a problem? 04:44 "One day we're attacked by Fox News, the next day we're attacked by Muslims who actually pay to have Facebook ads about us," Webb said. "I mean, that's the level of attacks that we're dealing with as a community and as a people. One brother told me, like what's going to happen next? It's like a soap opera." Webb himself has been subject to some of those attacks, as conservative media outlets have sought to tie him to Alton Nolen , an Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker, and the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Webb said he never met the three men. "It's guilt by nonassociation," he said with a sardonic laugh. At one point during his sermon last Friday, a man interrupted to argue that Muslims shouldn't care about what others say about them. But when even avowed liberals like Maher and Harris lash out against Islam, Webb said, then it's time to worry. "The last bastion of support we'll find in this country are among the liberals and some moderately conservative people," Webb said. "What happened on that show that night was to challenge that community and its traditional support of religious minorities in this country, and if we don't think that's something we should be worried about, then basically we are building our own coffins." Those are strong words, Webb acknowledged in a phone interview after his sermon, which was posted on YouTube last Friday. But necessary ones for American Muslims, who find themselves caught between Islamophobes and Islamists like ISIS, he said. "No community survives that fails to identify itself," Webb said, "and right now the rhetoric and the perception of the Muslim community, whether we believe it or not, is not very good." Instead, American Muslims frequently find themselves judged by how Islam is practiced overseas: stories about the group calling itself Islamic State, death sentences in Sudan, and restricted rights for women in Saudi Arabia. "What is constantly invoked is that Muslims are bad because of what is happening overseas, or Muslims are good because of what is happening overseas," Webb said. "In other words, we are being measured and weighed and determined by events that are completely outside of our hands." Webb challenged Muslims to assert control of their image in three ways: by forging an American-Islamic identity, building institutions and shifting away from the view that male scholars have the final view on the faith. "We need to appreciate the value of being seen as trusted ... that's the key to having a license to speak about religion," Webb said. "It's a beautiful thing in this country: that if you want to talk about God, you have to be someone who has a certain type of character."

Mahatma Gandhi Marg (Indore) MG Road or Mahatma Gandhi Road formerly known as James Street is one of the busiest roads of the city of Indore and a foremost shopping district in the city. It is spread over 8.6 km. Starting from Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport it leads to the life line of city i.e. A.B. Road on Palasia Square. Major landmarks include Indore High Court, Regal Square, Gandhi Hall, Treasure Island, Chhappan Dukaan, Jail Road, Kothari Market, Rajwada and Khajuri Bazaar. Major Junctions Aerodrome Western terminal point of M.G. Road where it meets with a link road to National Highway 59 and Supper Corridor which is an upcoming hub for IT mega campus like TCS SEZ, Infosys SEZ and new sport complex. Landmarks: Bijasan Tekri, Gommat Giri, Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport Bada Ganpati Intersection of M.G. Road and Netaji Subhash Chandra Marg locally known as Bada Ganpati Square is a busy junction with commercial and religious traffic due to famous temple of bada ganpati on the junction. Landmarks: Bada Ganpati Mandir Malharganj Oldest market and one of the most dense areas of Indore where M.G. Road become narrow due to congestion and heavy markets Cloth Market, Seetla mata market, Sarafa and many more. Landmarks: Sarafa, Chhipa bakhal Rajwada Centre of Indore and adjoining State Highway 27 to Ujjain and connect north city to south city. It is the busiest pedestrian junction on M.G Road and in Indore too. Landmarks: Rajwada, Khajuri Bazaar, Krishnapura chattris and Khan river. Regal A huge round about after which 2 lane M.G. Road turns into a six lane express road. The circle connect east city to west and old to new. Major road intersecting on Regal Junction and adjoining areas are R.N.T Marg (towards Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya), Station Road (towards Indore Junction), Nehru Park Road and Prince Yeshwant Road (toward Holkar Cricket Stadium). Landmarks: Regal Cinemas, Central Mall, Central Library, Indore High Court Indraprasth A junction with big malls, branded showrooms and wide roads make M.G. Road a fashion street. Landmarks: Pizza Hut, Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Treasure Island, Indraprasth Mall, Apollo Tower Mall, Globus Mall, PVR Cinemas, McDonald's, etc. Many Indian cities have an MG road, and in general there is no linkage between these various roads (except that in many cases, these happen to be one of the busiest parts of the city). Category:Roads in Madhya Pradesh Category:Transport in Indore Category:Roads in Indore

dma this comment is fairly sraight forward.the merchants downtown wants to back sailboats and moviemakers. Jerry Brandon you realy think this is best for this town.you btching about the docks downtown that its not fair.those docks were built with fishermens extra tax we pay on tackel. You was not man enough to return my phone call. so ill ask you here when you were mayor and the kingfish tournament was here what did that bring in.I know were are poor but between now and may 27. my clients have a total of 13 rooms in kingsland.I know that with all the sailboaters DMA does not need their money.I have a kingsland motel that gives them a good break. A kinsland store carries marine gas and sponsors a redfish team. Now with you going and saying to Bwk. paper DNR is unfair with the docks. If the city wanted to make the gilman property a place to stay for free. You would be the 1st one crying yet thats what you are doing to mr.lang Beautiful day and no charter so Tommy has to get on his box of wires and vent.Waaa, waaa, waaa, waaa! only a half day. 8am to 12pm so only worked half day my mom passed away 4 years ago today so family has plans. but boat is full for in the morning and i have a 8 hour day.sat- a half with 3 people sun a all day with same group but they are in kingslandso lets do a little addingill make about 950.00 before expenseskingsland will do 4 rooms from them.dont know where they ate. most likley around I-95 but i did say langs if they wanted seafood or seafood and more.I cant understand why brondon is crying about them signs yesterday i docked at very end of boat dock went to seafood and more and had no complaints.my boat was at very end and the sides were open for others puttin in or taking out.YET if I had a sailboat i could use the gilman dock and not have to put in and out everyday this weekend. YOU ARE A PUSSY BITCH IF YOU WON'T SAY THAT TO MY FACE.See if you are a person or the other.Ill out work or out think you anyday of the week.step in my shoes for a day.just remember KARMA she's something else. The last 2 people that said trash like that one is in a bed from a stroke the other was in a car wreck and is now having to restart as I did. Thats why I say KARMA will get even then I can say You had brought that luck on yourself I don't care about a wayne co business license.....I'm more concerned with you "allegedly" taking people out to fish for hire and not having the proper us coast gaurd credentials that all other us coast gaurd licensed capt must have. Us legit capts veiw you no different than a building contractor posing to be a licensed gc knowing good and well there is no license attached anywhere to your name. If you try to come across the river and compete with us in the nassau charter association you will deeply regret it....that goes for another "so called charter guide" that runs out of stank marys..........get the proper credentials like the rest of us have and all will be fine...until then - stop being a poser Lets all get this straight Tommy. You bitch about sailboats and people using facilities without paying taxes but you admit you registered your boat in Wayne Co. to get out of paying Camden Co. taxes. Isn't that a little two faced Tommy. But you always have let you mouth override you little ass. I don't care about a wayne co business license.....I'm more concerned with you "allegedly" taking people out to fish for hire and not having the proper us coast gaurd credentials that all other us coast gaurd licensed capt must have. Us legit capts veiw you no different than a building contractor posing to be a licensed gc knowing good and well there is no license attached anywhere to your name. If you try to come across the river and compete with us in the nassau charter association you will deeply regret it....that goes for another "so called charter guide" that runs out of stank marys..........get the proper credentials like the rest of us have and all will be fine...until then - stop being a poser I dont mess with fla on my trips because of the different rules ya have but all my paper work is ligit for ga.so I beleive in the laws ttry not to break fl. or ga. yet me and bart fish there rec. Lets all get this straight Tommy. You bitch about sailboats and people using facilities without paying taxes but you admit you registered your boat in Wayne Co. to get out of paying Camden Co. taxes. Isn't that a little two faced Tommy. But you always have let you mouth override you little ass. I still pay taxes its just cheaper in W.C. Lets compare our tackel purchases. thats where all dock grants come from. the state of ga has around 15% extra tax for docks,so im paying for docks in all of ga. if i had 5 kids that i could pay less on taxes you dont think i would There is no state credential for charter capt....only federal and it is issued by the u.s. coast gaurd.......if you are not a u.s. merchant marine officer crentialed by the coast gaurd for o.u.p.v. then you are not a licensed charter guide..........more validation that you have no clue what you are talking about nor do you have the proper licensing....and what in hell are you talking about a 15% extra tax for docks????? Tommy your a dumb ass! I am gonna report all recent charter trips and income to the state so you can't avoid that tax. Also, checked with your local DNR and you haven't registered for a saltwater guide license for the state of ga. When the DNR calls you and ask for (Dumb Ass) please respond they referring to you. Thanks again for putting everything in writing. Tell me when this thread is updated: Add your comments below Please note by submitting this form you acknowledge that you have read the Terms of Service and the comment you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator. Send us your feedback.

He said: Are you happy when you see a girl walking down the street with half of her behind showing? I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass her and a national duty to rape her. “I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass them,” he said. He added that “protecting morals is more important than protecting borders.” The National Council for Women’s Rights said they were a “flagrant call” for rape and violated “everything in the Egyptian constitution.” The council has also filed a complaint with the Supreme Council for Media Regulation about the Oct. 19 broadcast. According to The BBC , Wahsh is known to incite outrage he previously called the Holocaust “imaginary” and is a self-described proud anti-Semite. “If I see any Israeli, I will kill him,” he said during a separate TV appearance.

the psn is down. maybe you’ve heard of this? it’s just been in the news several thousand times. from gamer to politician, everyone just has their knickers in a twist over this whole issue. if it isn’t bitching and complaining about the lack of online games, they’re banging on about their personal information being stolen. we live in a day and age where NO ONE guards their privacy. clerks try asking for your postal code and phone number when you’re out shopping. ten people ahead of me in a line don’t even blink when asked for this info, but i become the bitch for refusing. you need my postal code so i can buy leather gloves? no, go fuck yourself. almost everything requires a credit card, to ‘verify it’. hotel rooms, dinner reservations, online shopping, renting anything – do you know you can’t make a facebook app without a credit card or mobile phone number? what a load of horse shit! privacy… being violated… and we are all pointing the finger at sony? not quite fair. guess what? sony, like a lot of other companies, isn’t immune to hacking. or theft. best buy got hacked. that was pretty recent, but there is NO industry that is safe. this is the world we live in. this is the price we pay for things at our fingertips. tech, finance, government. a few years ago, even the super bowl stadium site got hacked. little_nerdxo and i have been working our way through the new lego star wars. we can’t sync the trophies, but i wouldn’t trade the time we spent together for anything. captainadventure, who is more of an online player than i am, is using her time to catch up on trophies. personally, i’d actually argue that i like the break. i’m playing the sims almost non-stop [hence the lack of blogging, which has also been nice]. i’ve been spending more time with friends on patios, going for car rides, and just generally enjoying the spring time in toronto. i love my playstation. this is just a rough patch. the ps3 is an international free service. it’s got a great selection of games. it’s my lifeline, as evidenced a few weeks ago. i can play my old ps2 games on it. it cures cancer, for fuck’s sake. are we truly going to kick it when it’s down? i’m not a total fan girl. could sony have done more? probably. i am not pretending that they’re innocent but i also don’t know the full side of the story. if anything, it comes down to a 50/50 scenario. big business has a responsibility, but why are we going gently into the good night? consumers, like it or not, also have a certain responsibility. it’s kind of like the adult equivalent of ‘don’t talk to strangers’. don’t fuck a guy who doesn’t wear a condom. don’t download every goddamn thing you see online. golden rule of this digital age? don’t give out your credit card to everyone who asks. a credit card is not some kind of magical, bullet-proof vest. on sunday, i thought my world collapsed. as i told many of you, my beloved ps3 had a heart attack and almost died. i have been dreading this day for a while. when it happened, i was filled with ennui, despite the fact that everyone around me continuously reminded me it wasn’t an actual death. friends, family, boss man, co-workers, the boyfriends … everyone was a little wtf about it. it was kind of like a death. or a – spoiler!- close call. i depend on my ps3. it’s a date night hub, playing movies whilst one of the boyfriends and are on the couch. it’s my therapist, when i pop in call of duty after a tough day and gun down as many bitches as possible. given i don’t have cable, its internet browser capabilities is my tv. it’s my muthaeffing life, yo. when it broke, i didn’t actually cry but i was adrift to say the least. i was anxious, partly due to the fact that the ps3 had its episode of cardiac arrest and was clinging to the assassin’s creed 2 disc. i got the ‘In Memory of Petruccio’ trophy, and synced it. the next day, i got the ‘Show your Colors’ trophy. i felt pretty smug, since i had almost all the pieces of subject 16’s problems. platinum trophy was almost mine. then the whole red light death thing happened and i was scared. was its life flashing before its eyes? could it hear me, begging it to stay with me? the ps3 is too young to die!! i called captainadventure, one of the most technical girls i know. she recommended this place on yonge street, called gamerama. haven’t heard of toronto’s gamerama? let me tell you something about these people. let me drop some knowledge on you. they are miracle workers. they are saints. they are captains of industry. they are people who i owe a debt of gratitude. they fixed it. i got everything back. they don’t have a web site, which is unfortunate. what they do have is a treasure trove of toronto video game accessories, video game selection, etc. they have knowledgable repair people. they have decent prices. I LOVE THEM. and to put it in perspective for you all, i also love puppies, robert downey jr and a good workout [or robert downey jr giving me a good workout. hey-oh!]. it’s ok. there are many different types of love. no one need panic. anyway. first thing i did when i got a chance was sync the trophies – and wrote this post. from the bottom of my strange little heart, thank you, gentlemen of gamerama. hello citizens! i have been offline a little bit. my ps3 kind of started acting up over the weekend, and totally bit the dust on sunday. it’s in hospital as we speak. i have been assured that it will be ok, but as we know with machines, it’s not fixed til it’s fixed. it’s been a bit of a blur, to be honest. i was playing assassin’s creed 2, and got all those bastard feathers. it was pretty late, so i synced my trophies and went to bed. the next morning, i got the auditore cape, and wore it in every land. i was about 3 puzzles left on the whole subject 16 thing when IT CRASHED. i managed to get the disc out, thanks to captainadventure, but my beloved ps3 is being operated on and i haven’t had the heart to play video games. i am keeping my fingers crossed – the doctor has assured me that he’s able to fix it but i am anxious and restless. collectors edition, i must say, are a mixed bag. unless you buy online, video game merch is few and far between. i am sorry, but even i am only willing to possess so many action figures. i am a little too old for mario character plushies – the boyfriends are patient people, but one can only tolerate so much. this is why i used to love collectors editions. you always used to get a ton of shit from them. stardust entertainment was closing its scarborough toronto location about a year ago, so captainadventure and i booked it down there and bought a lot of shit. i scored the grand theft auto 4 collector edition, as well as the fallout 3 one. there’s some good shit in those two. then there was the assassin’s creed 2 one. not bad. action figure, metal tin, book, making of, yeah not bad. i have also gotten a few others. maybe it is just me, but i am noticing the quality falling. the god of war collector’s edition… well, it wasn’t bad. plastic box, some art books, a dvd ‘making of’ thing… in retrospect, i could have left it on the shelf. the fallout: new vegas collector edition. pack of cards, and some poker chips? meh. maybe i indulge myself too often. the other day, i got the assassin’s creed: brotherhood collector’s edition. i was so excited about it, as well you all may remember. i haven’t played it yet, but the collector’s edition? the stuff you get with it is a pile of shit. – art book. but it’s not so much art as it is so much the same shit you can can see anywhere else – map poster – dvd chronicling the development process – a free bag of yawns the crowning jewel in this clusterfuck is a jack-in-the-box. it is such shitty quality that i am rendered almost speechless. i opened it, and met by a plastic-smelling figure. good times. i struggled with the lid for five minutes to close it. then i showed little_nerdxo. same difficulty, although we had a good giggle over it, it was another struggle to get the lid back on. then we played it again. its fucking arm broke. obviously, i’m not going to return it to ebgames. they’d want the whole thing back, and lugging this piece of shit across toronto is just not something i am interested in doing. what i am interested in doing is being less blinded by my own greed next time. i hate to admit defeat. hate it. it’s a weakness. and no good has ever come of weakness. i will sadly and reluctantly admit that my plan of simply adding video games to my collection was a bit ridiculous. a few months ago, i started voraciously watching episodes of hoarders. then there was hoarders: buried alive. i can’t help it; i find this sort of show simply fascinating. i always wonder: how did they get there? what happened, what event transpired to create this situation? i take a certain amount of pride that my place doesn’t look like that. oh sure, every now and then it gets messy, but no one’s ever going to evict me over it. then i look at my game shelf. then i get a little scared. captainadventure has long preached the value of the rental. rent it, play it, return it, forget about it. then if you like it, buy it. ‘oh please’, i scoff. ‘it takes me months to finish games, i have a life’. as the games keep piling up, i get a little anxious. i mean, i bought oblivion over a year ago and i still haven’t played it. i bought the sims forever ago, and have been getting side tracked like nobody business. now, some of you out there i know will argue that i should examine the trade-in route. but these places don’t even offer half of the value you paid for the game. and as far as renting goes, well, i seriously doubt whether i can commit to two solid weeks of something. there’s work, there’s fun, there’s boys… i mean, honestly my social calendar fills up fast. man oh man. fallout: new vegas is the shit. just like the last one, i am rocking this thing on ps3. now, in my day, we didn’t do this ‘strategy guide’ bullshit. ok? that is some freeze-dried bullshit right there. we just fought it out. sometimes we polled our friends. later, we had this little thing called ‘the internet’. maybe you have heard of it? we sure as hell didn’t have any of this ‘strategy guide’ nonsense. a lot of clerks push them on you, especially when you buy the game the first day it’s out. why would i pay upwards of $30 for something i can get for free on the webz? asshats. anyway, captainadventure loves them. i was telling her how awesome fallout: new vegas was, and her first question was about this damn guide. guess what though? she bought the game, and the guide for fallout 3. she played maybe 5 hours, then gave up after fallout 3 revealed itself to be hot glitchy mess. what did that equal? a waste of money. i find that this is another big trend in games. big game, strategy guide. maybe you put two and two together and got four, you clever wannabe mathematicians and realized the bigger the game, the bigger the guide. sheesh. if it wasn’t for little_nerdxo and captainadventure, i don’t think my house would have ever gotten organized. recently, we went on a trip to ikea. i moved in march, and only in july did i finish unpacking the boxes. not because i have that much stuff, but because of no furniture. i kept putting it off, time and general laziness being the big factors. why buy furniture when i can buy games? amazon.com video game organizer the biggest questions of all though, was what to do with the mountains of games i own, not to mention all the consoles. a quick google search for ‘video game organizers’ went beyond uphelpful. amazon.com’s offering is pathetic – by the looks of it, it holds only about 6 games and a few controllers. serious and even casual gamers are going to amass a lot more than 6 games over their lifetime. the most insulting part of all is the description: Gamers are serious about video games! And when you’re that serious, you’re going to need some serious organizational power to back you up. And there is no reason to skimp on style! Presenting the Faux Leather Video Game Organizer. It boasts plenty of space for gamers controllers, guides, games, and it stores them all in one complete faux leather location! Perfect for gamers of all persuasions including the Wii, PS# and Xbox! Order one today and let your favorite gamer get back to doing what they’re best at — winning the game! Assembly level/degree of difficulty: No Assembly Required. honestly? the only thing i’m serious about after reading that description is tracking down the copywriter and repeatedly punching them in their goddamn face. now, one could argue that the solution is to simply buy one of those megabeast media centres, but this is simply stupidity, and sheer ignorance. flatscreens, or at least the new model lcd i own, doesn’t have the ports needed to accomodate retro consoles. captainadventure tried to hook up the wii, but it lacked colour and tossed out sound when it felt like it. this goes double for the retro games i own. this means i need two tvs – an old one, and the bitchin’ lcd.

Q: If Allah loves more than 70 times to his creation, Why he created this Test in the first place? Allah knows that certain human beings will go to hell. Imagine your mother finds out that you are going to hell and she has the capacity to undo all of your actions she would do it by all means . My question is why created all of this test? why not let all of us live in heaven?it would be more loving to live all of his creation in heaven rather than creating all of this Test? A: "Imagine your mother finds out that you are going to hell and she has the capacity to undo all of your actions she would do it by all means." Yes, because your mother is biased for you. A mother's love can be misguided. A mother can love a murderer. But, Allah is at the same time Just. Allah loves all people equally, so he punishes those who wrong other people. Your mother too punishes you if you wrong your brother or sister. And your mother would certainly not help you if you ignored her for all your life and respected another woman as a mother even though your mother took complete care of you. And you disrespected your mother, disobeying every command and request she made of you. And when your brother (from the same mother but who actually obeys her) came an asked you to obey her you ridiculed him and did not listen to him either. Such is the case with Shirk but you do it with Allah who loves you and provides for you much more than your mother. In such a situation your mother would not stop you from going to Hell, and neither will Allah because you deserve it. My point is that Allah does start out loving everyone a lot just as your mother starts to love you when you are a baby. But as you become an adult and become a terrible person, a morally good mother would not love you as much. Her love will wear away. But if you become a good person. Great, her love is only added to. Likewise is Allah. He provides for you to live and loves you in the beginning, and if you die when you are young he will give you Jannah out of his Mercy and love. But, your sins and disbelief remove that love (though asking forgiveness will always get His love back). Allah does not love disbelievers and transgressors: Allah does not love the disbelievers (3:32) Allah does not like the unjust (3:140) He does not like the arrogant (16:23) And he loves those who are pious and good: Indeed Allah loves the virtuous. (2:195) Allah indeed loves the Godwary. (3:76) Allah loves the patient. (3:146)

Q: Diver view of refraction I'm studying the refraction in optics. If a red light monocromatic beam of red light (700 nm) passes from air to water it becomes with a wavelenght of aprox 526 nm. So, my question is: How is going to see this beam a diver? Red (700 nm) or something more like green (526 nm)? (Let's suppose that the diver isn't wearing glasses). I think that he is going to see the beam green? I'm a little confused... A: You will see it the same, regardless of the refraction index of your medium. The reason is as simple as that, when the light hits your retina, it will be travelling through the interior of your eye, so the only refractive index that matters is that of the eye. What is what we actually detect, wavelength of frequency? Frequency is the one related to energy, so my feeling is that that should be the one influencing chemical reactions, that is, at the end, the way cones can detect light. Indeed, the vitreous humour (the interior filling of the eyeballs) looses water with age, to the point of getting deatached from the retina, something very common among old people (Wikipedia says 75% of > 65). The main consequences are visual artifacts, but no one has claimed colours suddenly look different. Physics books quote wavelengths because those are usually what one measures in the lab in the optical range. Plus, the numerical values are (and this is subjective) more convenient.

Mario Dolder Mario Dolder (born 22 June 1990) is a Swiss biathlete. He competed in the 2014/15 World Cup season, and represented Switzerland at the Biathlon World Championships 2015 in Kontiolahti. References External links Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:Swiss male biathletes Category:Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Category:Olympic biathletes of Switzerland

Posted 15 March 2011 - 06:11 PM kgoldy Posted 15 March 2011 - 06:16 PM kgoldy Lazy Reefer Members 3,645 posts Joined 02 Jun 2010 Long Island, NY Picked up some free macros from the LFS on my way home from work today. Picked out the grape caulerpa and tossed it out since it's supposedly like a plague. Kept what I now think is fern caulerpa... mostly because I didn't know what it was until just now (as I'm web searching). Think I should toss it? The seahorses gripping it in one of their display tanks sold me on getting it. And some... what I think may be... Caulerpa Prolifera... Crap. Is all caulerpa bad? The last thing looks like it may be something else... But I'm not sure. It's on a runner, the leaves are very small. May just be small pieces of one of the other three caulerpas. Bristleworms- The lone hermit- John at Reefcleaners just brought back the 10 pack of random macros. If this stuff I got is all junk, I don't mind throwing it all out before it spreads. Looks neat. What kind of dog is that? Pitbull mastiff mix. At least that's the veterinarian's guess. I got him with fake papers that said he was a purebred pit before I knew anything about dogs. I love him anyway. The gray one is a purebred blue nose pit, which I got by chance, after I did a lot of research. She thinks she's a cat... And the cat thinks it's a dog. Hence the food bowl confusion that goes on every meal. Weetabix7 Posted 15 March 2011 - 06:48 PM Weetabix7 Nano Reefer Premium Members 18,419 posts Joined 15 May 2006 Oak Ridge, TN Awesome dogs. As bitts can tell you, I'm a dog person, and I'm partial to big dogs. The first dog looks kinda like a Bullmastiff to me. What's his temperament like?Sry for all the dog questions.Fuge looks pretty cool too. (for real ) Picked up some free macros from the LFS on my way home from work today. Picked out the grape caulerpa and tossed it out since it's supposedly like a plague. Kept what I now think is fern caulerpa... mostly because I didn't know what it was until just now (as I'm web searching). Think I should toss it? The seahorses gripping it in one of their display tanks sold me on getting it.And some... what I think may be... Caulerpa Prolifera... Crap. Is all caulerpa bad? The above Caulerpa is good, I have some and really like it. Personally, I would toss the others though. kgoldy Posted 15 March 2011 - 07:40 PM kgoldy Lazy Reefer Members 3,645 posts Joined 02 Jun 2010 Long Island, NY Awesome dogs. As bitts can tell you, I'm a dog person, and I'm partial to big dogs. The first dog looks kinda like a Bullmastiff to me. What's his temperament like?Sry for all the dog questions.Fuge looks pretty cool too. (for real ) In person you see he's a lot more sausage shaped (because he's not toned anymore, bad legs ) than a mastiff. The head totally gives it away though, just way more massive than the average pit. Stika is his name. As far as his temperament, he's a total wuss. The little 7 pound declawed cat is the boss of the house. He's not a fan of other dogs, ever since he was bitten as a puppy. An english mastiff basically tried to eat his head... I've tried to re-socialize him, but nothing works. He doesn't attack, but gets very nervous and needs supervision around big dogs. Small dogs kind of creep him out if they're overly friendly. When it comes to people though- he's a real sweetheart. Very cuddly, will do anything to sit on your lap, leg, foot... What ever it takes to have contact. Ashley, the gray one, is pretty much the perfect dog for people who don't like dogs. She never barks (that's the weimaraner genes), is feminine as a dog can be, and is calm and friendly towards even dogs who've tried to attack her. One of my ex-girlfriends had a really poorly trained pitbull who straight up attacked Ashley with intent to kill, and she thought it was the most fun game ever invented. She's also the epitome of good health- she runs and jumps like an antelope. The above Caulerpa is good, I have some and really like it. Personally, I would toss the others though. Looks like I'll toss the rest to be safe. The 10 pack from Reefcleaners is probably my best bet... I may even end up putting some in the display. RESONANCE Posted 15 March 2011 - 09:37 PM RESONANCE FUBAR. Members 436 posts Joined 17 Jun 2009 Caulpera mexicana I think. Nice find! @ your dogs and cats . Very cute though. The gray one is a purebred blue nose pit, which I got by chance, after I did a lot of research. She thinks she's a cat... And the cat thinks it's a dog. Hence the food bowl confusion that goes on every meal. kgoldy Posted 16 March 2011 - 08:18 AM kgoldy Lazy Reefer Members 3,645 posts Joined 02 Jun 2010 Long Island, NY The little gray cat (Maggie) was a stray that my mom adopted. It had a litter of kittens before being taken in, so it's very, very motherly towards the dogs... Especially Ashley. Maggie attempts to clean Ashley all the time. Markushka Posted 16 March 2011 - 09:43 AM Markushka staraya gvardia Members 3,635 posts Joined 01 Jul 2009 Rutgers NB out of the three you posted, I'd have only tossed the last one. It doesnt really look good, while the others have some decent displayablility. Caulpera isn't bad if its controlled. And Ulva and Gracilaria usually don't take well in my tanks, really hit or miss. kgoldy Posted 16 March 2011 - 09:48 AM At the moment I've just got a 3/4" ID vinyl tube pumping water from the drain... You can see in the above pictures, the bubbles are where all the flow is. I was thinking of buying a few T's and placing them in line to break up the flow , and force it downward. At the end I'll place a cap or 90 degree elbow to create the backpressure that will be needed so the water doesn't simply follow the path of least resistance and go straight out the end. Right now I'm probably getting somewhere around 400 GPH through the 20 gallon fuge... Can't reduce it without redoing my drain rig (which will probably happen sooner than later). Is this flow absolutely too much for macros? And what do you guys (and gals) think of pipefish in there? Do they require the same low temperatures as seahorses? I'm wondering if putting carnivores in there would be counter productive... If they'd destroy the whole pod population... kgoldy Posted 17 March 2011 - 09:06 PM kgoldy Lazy Reefer Members 3,645 posts Joined 02 Jun 2010 Long Island, NY Added some "tigger pods" to the fuge. I haven't noticed any bugs in the tank with their orange color yet, so I figured what the hell. Stuck the bottle in the tank to equalize temp- let it sink, and allowed a lot of the pods to creep out on their own. It was entertaining to watch... Not sure if the pods will show up on photobucket, but you can def see them on my camera. Added a few pieces of plumbing to see how I could break up the flow so it's not blasting through anymore. Got more pieces to add, I just forgot to pick up some more black vinyl tubing while I was at the LFS to help put it all together. Also put on some Hydor Rotating Deflectors to try to put some more back pressure on my return pump... I really think I should have gone with the Ehiem 1260. This 1262 is like freak 5 horse power or something. Anyway, hopefully that stops the sand from forming dunes and pits in the display. The tank is now like random flow city! Also put a second temporary light in... So that's two 23 watt off-the-shelf home depot CFL's in there. Hopefully this helps to control the massive amount of GHA that's been growing in the display. Sadly- I think my GARF Grunge order got lost in the mail... Or at least delayed a day. I'm expecting a call from Leroy at GARF tomorrow when he figures out what happened. captainbastard Posted 18 March 2011 - 09:48 AM captainbastard On the cliff by the sea... Members 651 posts Joined 14 Apr 2009 san jose, ca Nice setup. It'll be interesting to see how those tigger pods fair. I know people are on both sides of the fence whether or not they can survive in warmer waters, John can probably give us more info. Keep us updated kgoldy Posted 18 March 2011 - 10:21 AM kgoldy Lazy Reefer Members 3,645 posts Joined 02 Jun 2010 Long Island, NY Yeah, I think I read that they're from off the coast of Washington state... I expect, if they survive at all- that their metabolism and growth rates will be sped up so that they're more likely to reproduce quickly and will become a food source in my tank. Or... They're all dead already. Don't really know. Haha. I'll report back if I see any little orange pods in the tank a week from now. I looked briefly this morning, and didn't notice any- whereas they were a cloud of orange in the tank last night. keydiver Posted 18 March 2011 - 10:35 AM keydiver dedicated macro man Members 2,678 posts Joined 14 Aug 2010 miami, FL macros are gonna be cool. you should get some red and brown macros, cause they're usually the prettier ones. +1 to ochtodes, mine started dying back but have really taken off now and it looks great. The manatee and oar grass might be difficult unless you're using mineral mud or a DSB, not to mention the caulerpa prolifera that will out-compete it for space, it likes to send out runners into the sand. I've had it in my 20g for 3 months, and now you can't even see the ground.

Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union Scarratt captained Team GB Women's Sevens at the Rio 2016 Olympics Emily Scarratt, team GB Women's Sevens captain at the Rio 2016 Olympics, is leaving the England Rugby Sevens programme to play 15-a-side rugby. She joins new club Loughborough Lightning with immediate effect. Scarratt, 28, is among the first three players to be awarded a XVs contract, starting in 2019. Natasha Hunt, 2014 World Cup winner, is also leaving the Sevens program to join Gloucester-Hartpury, while Jess Breach returns to Harlequins Ladies. All three forfeit the chance to play at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games but will be considered for the next Women's Rugby World Cup in 2021 in New Zealand. They are each also now eligible to play in the Tyrrells Premier XVs - the top-tier of the women's English rugby union domestic league. Scarratt's signature for Loughborough Lightning will be a coup for the club, currently third in the Premier XVs league. She last played for Lichfield before focusing on Sevens, but the club failed in their bid to win a franchise to play in the Premier XVs. Scarratt was also World Cup winner in 2014. She went on to be named the Rugby Union Writer's Club Pat Marshall winner in 2015 after she scored 16 points in the Red Roses 21-9 final win over Canada in Paris. The Rugby Football Union announced their Women's 15-a-side players would be going professional in 2019 earlier this year. A total of 28 full time XVs women's contracts will be awarded, with the final 25 names announced on 3 January. Meanwhile, 2014 World Cup finalist Amy Wilson-Hardy has rejoined the Sevens programme.

--- abstract: '[**Abstract.**]{} We obtain a sharp lower estimate on eigenvalues of Laplace–Beltrami operator on a hyperbolic surface with injectivity radius bounded from the below.' author: - 'M.B. Dubashinskiy[^1]' title: On spectra of hyperbolic surfaces without thin handles --- Introduction ============ Let $\Omega$ be a hyperbolic surface, that is, a Riemannian manifold of real dimension $2$ with constant Gaussian curvature $-1$; we assume that $\Omega$ is compact and has no border. Denote by $g$ the genus of $\Omega$. Let $\Delta$ be Laplace–Beltrami operator on $\Omega$; it has purely discrete spectrum since $\Omega$ is compact. Denote by $\lambda_j=\lambda_j(\Omega)$ the $j$th eigenvalue of $-\Delta$ ($j=0,1,2,\dots$). Our main result is the following \[th:main\] Let $r>0$. There exists a constant $c(r)>0$ such that if injectivity radius of $\Omega$ is greater than $r$ then $\lambda_{\lceil{{\varepsilon}g}\rceil} \ge c(r)\cdot {\varepsilon}^2$ for any ${\varepsilon}\le 2$. In what follows, we denote by $c(r)$ any positive constant depending only on $r$ (but not on ${\varepsilon}$, $g$ and $\Omega$). Proposition \[prop:sharp\] below shows that our estimate is sharp in the order. A theorem by Otal and Rosas ([@OtalRosas]) says that $\lambda_{2g-2} > 1/4$ for any $\Omega$ of genus $g$. To the other hand, for a given $\delta >0$, $N\in \mathbb N$ and $g=2,3,\dots$ there exists a hyperbolic surface $\Omega$ of genus $g$ with $\lambda_{2g-3} < \delta$ and $\lambda_{2g-2+N} < 1/4+\delta$. Validity of these inequalities is related to the existence of thin handles on $\Omega$ (see [@Buser]). In other words, eigenvalues are small when injectivity radius of $\Omega$ degenerates. Theorem \[th:main\] gives the lower estimate on eigenvalues under the assumption on this radius. [**Acknowledgments.**]{} The problem was stated by M. Mirzakhani. Author is also grateful to P.G. Zograf for introducing the topic. Proof of Theorem \[th:main\] ============================ Our proof of Theorem \[th:main\] is a slight refinement of Buser’s argument leading to the estimate $\lambda_{2g-2} \ge 10^{-12}$ (see [@Buser]) together with simple Lemma \[lemma:graph\] on graphs. We are going to apply Dirichlet–Neumann bracketing technique. Recall that if $X\subset\Omega$ is a set with positive area and piecewise smooth boundary, then its *Cheeger constant* is defined as $$h(X) := \inf\frac{l(A)}{\min\{|B|, |B'|\}},$$ where $A$ ranges over the family of all finite unions of piecewise smooth curves on $X$ cutting $X$ into two disjoint subsets $B$ and $B'$. Here, $l(A)$ is length of $A$ and $|\cdot|$ is Riemannian volume on $\Omega$. A very standard combination of geometric implementation of minimax principle together with Cheeger–Yau isoperimetric inequality ([@Buser], see also [@Cheeger], [@Yau]) leads to the following conclusion: \[th:Cheeger\_minimax\] Suppose that $k\in\mathbb N$ and that $\Omega$ is subdivided into union of sets $X_1, \dots, X_k$ with piecewise-smooth boundaries and disjoint interiors. Then $$\lambda_k(\Omega) \ge \min\limits_{j=1,\dots, k} \frac{h^2(X_j)}4.$$ An appropriate subdivision of $\Omega$ will be obtained via trianguation of controlled size. For this, recall a result by Buser (Theorem 4.5.2 in [@Buser], see also [@Buser78]). \[def:trigon\] A closed domain $D\subset \Omega$ is called a *trigon* if $D$ is of one of the following two types: 1. $D$ a simply connected embedded geodesic triangle *(an ordinary triangle)*; 2. $D$ is embedded doubly connected domain bounded by a geodesic cycle and two geodesic arcs *(a collar-type trigon)*. Geodesic boundary components of such $D$ are called *sides* of $D$. \[th:triangulation\] Surface $\Omega$ can be triangulated into trigons having side lengths $\le \log 4$ and areas between $0.19$ and $1.36$. Fix such a triangulation; denote by $\mathcal T_c$ and $\mathcal T_t$ the sets of its collar-type trigons and ordinary triangles respectively. Also, denote by $\mathcal S_c$ and $\mathcal S_a$ the sets of sides of our triangulation which are cycles and geodesic arcs respectively. Let $\mathcal N$ be the set of vertices of triangulation. The proof of Theorem \[th:triangulation\] from [@Buser] furnishes symmetries of trigons from $\mathcal T_c$: namely, $\mathcal S_a$-sides of such a trigon have equal lengths. From this we derive that lengths of arcs from $\mathcal S_a$ are bounded from the below by an absolute constant; also, angles of triangulation are also bounded from below by an absolute constant. (For $\mathcal T_t$-trigons these statements are obvious due to upper area estimate whereas for segments and angles in boundaries of collars the computation is done in [@Buser].) \[lemma:shortcut\] If $a_1,a_2$ are two sides of triangulation with no common vertex, then $\operatorname{dist}_\Omega(a_1, a_2)$ is bounded from the below by an absolute constant $d_0>0$. [**Proof.**]{} First, notice that distance from any $c\in \mathcal S_c$ to any other side is bounded from below by a universal constant — otherwise area of some trigon from $\mathcal T_c$ degenerates. Next, we claim that *distances between vertices of triangulation are bounded from below by a universal constant*. Indeed, let $U$ be a metric ball on $\Omega$ centered in some $v\in\mathcal N$. If radius of $U$ is small enough then for each $\tau \in \mathcal T_c \cup \mathcal T_t$ intersection $U\cap \tau$ can intersect no sides of triangulation except for those who emanate from $v$; it is easily checked for both types of trigons, and this leads to our claim. Now, suppose that $\gamma$ is a geodesic arc joining $a_1$ and $a_2$ and of small length; it cannot intersect some side from $\mathcal S_c$ since such sides are far away enough from all the other sides. Suppose that $\gamma$ passes through some trigon $\tau\in\mathcal T_c\cup \mathcal T_t$. Then it occurs close enough to some vertex $v\in\mathcal N$ (because angles of trigons are bounded from below). Since vertices are separated, the whole curve $\gamma$ is situated close enough to some vertex $v\in\mathcal N$, but in this case $\gamma$ can join only sides emanating from $v$. Proof is finished. $\blacksquare$ Now we estimate Cheeger constants: \[lemma:Cheeger\] Let $X\subset\Omega$ be a union of $N$ distinct trigons from our triangulation *(*$N=1,2,\dots$*)*. Suppose that $X$ is “connected” in the sense that two trigons are adjacent if they have a common side, not just a vertex. *(*More formally, we may say that the interior of $X$ is connected.*)* Then, under hypothesis on injectivity radius of $\Omega$, we have $$\label{eq:isoper} h(X) \ge \frac{c(r)}N.$$ [**Proof.**]{} Let $A, B, B'$ be sets from definition of Cheeger constant for $X$; we have $A\neq \varnothing$ since $X$ is connected. By Yau lemma ([@Buser], Lemma 8.3.6, see also [@Yau]) we may assume that $B, B'$ are connected. If $l(A) \ge r$ then note that $\min\{|B|, |B'|\} \le 1.36\cdot 1/2\cdot N$, and this leads to (\[eq:isoper\]). Next, suppose that $A$ contains a cycle $\gamma$. Then $\gamma$ is homotopic to identity in $\Omega$ (since $l(A) < r$ and by injectivity radius condition). Cycle $\gamma$ should enclose in $\Omega$ a component of area $\le l(\gamma) / h(\mathds H)=l(\gamma)$ (it is known that Cheeger constant of the whole Lobachevskiy plane $\mathbb H$ is $1$) and this also gives (\[eq:isoper\]). So, suppose that $A$ does not contain a cycle. We could assume from the beginning that $r < d_0$ where $d_0$ is the constant from Lemma \[lemma:shortcut\]. Set $A$ is a union of curves; take any component $\gamma$ of $A$. Then $\gamma$ necessarily has ends (since $A$ does not contain a cycle) and these ends lie on $\partial X$. Take two of such ends, $p_1, p_2$, and curve $\gamma_1\subset \gamma$ joining them. By Lemma \[lemma:shortcut\], $p_1$ and $p_2$ are situated either on the same side of triangulation or on two distinct sides emanating from their common vertex; this side or these sides lie on $\partial X$. But if $Y$ is an angle on $\mathbb H$ or half-plane of $\mathbb H$ then $h(Y)=1$ (see, e.g., proof of Theorem 8.1.2 in [@Buser]). This and also injectivity radius condition, say, in $p_1$ lead to (\[eq:isoper\]). $\blacksquare$ Now, to obtain a subdivision of $\Omega$ via our triangulation, we give a simple graph lemma: \[lemma:graph\] Let $G$ be a finite connected non-oriented graph with degrees of vertices $\le 3$. Let $k \in\mathbb N$. The set of vertices of $G$ can be subdivided as $V_1 \sqcup V_2 \sqcup \dots \sqcup V_\alpha \sqcup V'$ *(*for some $\alpha=0,1,2,\dots$*)* such that: 1. graphs induced by $G$ on each $V_1, V_2, \dots, V_\alpha, V'$ are connected; 2. $2^k \le |V_1|, |V_2|, \dots, |V_\alpha| \le 2^{k+1}-1$ and $0 \le |V'| \le 2^k$. [**Proof.**]{} We argue by induction by the number of vertices in $G$; for the empty graph the statement is obvious. We may assume that $G$ is a tree. Pick a leaf of $G$ and call it root. Arrange the graph by levels by distance from the root. Vertex $v$ from some level is adjacent to $\le 2$ vertices from the next level, we call them *children* of $v$. Let us construct a sequence of vertices $v_0, v_1, \dots, v_\beta$ of $G$ ($\beta$ will be some non-negative integer). Take the root as $v_0$. Suppose that $v_j$ is constructed and that $v_l$ and $v_r$ are its children. W.l.o.g., the total number of descendants of $v_l$ is greater or equal than that of $v_r$. Then put $v_{j+1}:=v_l$. If $v_j$ has only one child then take it as $v_{j+1}$; and if $v_j$ has no children then stop our process and put $\beta:=j$, this should occur necessarily. Thus we construct a sequence of vertices. Now pass this sequence in the reverse order (starting from $v_\beta$ and up to $v_0$) and watch for the total number of descendants of vertices. If $v_{j+1}$ has $x$ descendants (together with itself) then $v_{j}$ has $\le 2x+1$ descendants together with itself. Then we have two cases: 1. There exists some $v_j$ having $\ge 2^k$ and $\le 2^{k+1}-1$ descendants together with itself. Then, for $V_1$ we take the set consisting of $v_j$ and of all of its descendants. Cut them from $G$ and apply induction hypothesis for $G$ without $V_1$. 2. $|G|<2^k$. Then take $V'$ as the whole set of vertices of $G$. $\blacksquare$ [**Proof of Theorem \[th:main\].**]{} First, assume that ${\varepsilon}g\le 1$. Then we have to prove that $\lambda_1 > c(r)/g^2$, but, by Theorem \[th:Cheeger\_minimax\], it is enough to prove that $h(\Omega) > c(r)/g$. Taking $A$ from the definition of $h(\Omega)$, we see that $A$ must contain a cycle; in this case we argue as in the corresponding case in the proof of Lemma \[lemma:Cheeger\] and easily obtain the desired (recall that $|\Omega|=2\pi(2g-2)$). Now, suppose that ${\varepsilon}g >1$. Pick $k\in\mathbb N$ with $2^k\ge \dfrac{8\pi}{0.19\cdot {\varepsilon}} \ge 2^{k-1}$, this can be done because ${\varepsilon}\le 2$. Let $G$ be the graph of triangulation obtained in Theorem \[th:triangulation\]: namely, set of vertices of $G$ is $\mathcal T_t\cup \mathcal T_c$ and two such trigons are adjacent if they have a common side. Apply Lemma \[lemma:graph\] to $G$, take subdivision of the set of vertices of $G$ obtained by this lemma and consider corresponding subdivision of $\Omega$ as $X_1 \cup X_2 \cup \dots \cup X_\alpha \cup X'$ for some $\alpha =0,1,2,\dots$. Since trigons have area $\ge 0.19$, we have $|X_j| \ge 2^k\cdot 0.19$ for all $j=1,2,\dots,\alpha$. Then $$\alpha \le \dfrac{|\Omega|}{2^k\cdot 0.19} < \dfrac{4\pi g}{2^k\cdot 0.19} \le \frac{{\varepsilon}g}{2} \le \lceil {\varepsilon}g\rceil-1.$$ So, $\alpha+1\le \lceil {\varepsilon}g\rceil$. Now, by Lemma \[lemma:Cheeger\], we have $h(X_j), h(X') \ge c(r)/2^k$ for all $j$. This and Theorem \[th:Cheeger\_minimax\] lead to the desired. $\blacksquare$ Finally, let us demonstrate the sharpness of our estimate (we may think that ${\varepsilon}$ is $1/k$). \[prop:sharp\] For any $k, l \in \mathbb N$ there exists a hyperbolic surface $\Omega$ of genus $kl+1$ with injectivity radius bounded from below by a universal constant and with $\lambda_{l-1}(\Omega) \le C/k^2$, here $C<+\infty$ is a universal constant. [**Proof.**]{} Let $P$ be fixed hyperbolic pants bounded by geodesic cycles of length, say, $1$ (existence and uniqueness of such pants is a well-known fact). Let $P_1, \dots, P_{2k}$ be copies of these pants. For $j=1,2, \dots, 2k$, denote by $\gamma_1(P_j), \gamma_2(P_j), \gamma_3(P_j)$ the boundary components of $P_j$. For $j=1,2,\dots, k$, let us glue $\gamma_2(P_{2j-1})$ to $\gamma_2(P_{2j})$ and $\gamma_3(P_{2j-1})$ to $\gamma_3(P_{2j})$. Also, for $j=1,2,\dots, k-1$ paste $\gamma_1(P_{2j})$ to $\gamma_1(P_{2j+1})$. Denote by $Q$ the surface obtained in such a way; it is a hyperbolic surface with two geodesic boundary components of length $1$. There exists a Sobolev function $f\colon Q\to {{\mathbb R}}$ with the following properties: first, $f=0$ on $\partial Q$; second, $f$ takes values in $[j-1,j]$ on ${P_j}$ and on $P_{2k-j+1}$ for $j=1,2, \dots, k$; third, $|\operatorname{grad}f|$ does not exceed some absolute constant, $\operatorname{grad}$ being metric gradient. (To construct such a function, just let it be equal to appropriate constants on boundary components of pants and interpolate it into the interiors of pants anyway.) Now, take $l$ copies of $Q$ and paste them in a cyclic way to obtain a hyperbolic surface $\Omega$ with no boundary. Then genus of $\Omega$ is $kl+1$. Moreover, one can find Sobolev functions $f_1, f_2, \dots, f_l\colon \Omega\to {{\mathbb R}}$ with disjoint supports and such that $\int_\Omega f_j^2 \ge c_1\cdot k^3$, $\int_\Omega |\operatorname{grad}f_j|^2 \le c_2\cdot k$ (constants $c_1, c_2$ are absolute). By the geometric version of minimax principle (that is, by upper estimate from Dirichlet–Neumann bracketing), this leads to the desired eigenvalue estimate. Injectivity radius of $\Omega$ is bounded from the below since it is true for any pants. $\blacksquare$ [99]{} P. Buser, *Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces*, Birkhäuser (2010; reprint of 1992 edition). P. Buser, *Cubic graphs and the first eigenvalue of a Riemann surface*, Math. Z. [**162**]{} (1978), 87–99. J.-P. Otal, E. Rosas, *Pour toute surface hyperbolique de genre $g$, $\lambda_{2g-2}>1/4$*, Duke Math. J. [**150**]{}, no. 1 (2009), 101–115. J. 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Barrister Saif-ul-Mulook ISLAMABAD: After saving condemned Christian Asia Bibi from the gallows in Pakistan, her lawyer says he is facing the wrath of extremists -- and wonders who will save him. But despite the threats against him, Saif-ul-Mulook says he regrets nothing, and will continue his legal fight against intolerance. Mulook’s latest victory saw the freeing of Asia Bibi -- a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, who spent nearly a decade on death row -- after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction Wednesday. "The verdict has shown that the poor, the minorities and the lowest segments of society can get justice in this country despite its shortcomings," he told AFP immediately after the verdict. "This is the biggest and happiest day of my life." Demonstrations against the ruling erupted across the country hours later. Mulook said he feels he is now a sitting duck with no security or escape plan. "I think I have absolutely no safety. No security and I am the easiest target... anybody can kill me," he said. The defence of Bibi was just the latest in a long line of controversial cases taken up by the barrister. In 2011, Mulook was the lead prosecutor against Mumtaz Qadri over the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer -- a prominent critic of the country’s blasphemy laws and supporter of Bibi. Qadri -- one of Taseer’s bodyguards -- gunned down his boss in broad daylight, citing the governor’s calls for reform of the blasphemy laws as his motive. Mulook said he took on the case as others cowered, fearing reprisals from extremists. His prosecution resulted in the conviction and subsequent execution of Qadri, who was feted by Islamists and later honoured with a shrine on the outskirts of Islamabad. Mulook says his life has not been the same since; he rarely socialises, lives in a constant state of hypervigilance and has been inundated with threats. "If you conduct such cases you should be ready for the results and the consequences," the greying 62-year-old explains. But Mulook said the risks have been worth the reward. "I think it’s better to die as a brave and strong man than to die as a mouse and fearful person," he said. "I extend my legal help to all people."

Age-adjusted shock index: From injury to arrival. Studies have demonstrated the superiority of the shock index, pediatric age-adjusted (SIPA) in predicting outcomes in pediatric blunt trauma patients. However, all have utilized SIPA calculated on emergency department (ED) arrival. We sought to evaluate the utility of SIPA at the trauma scene and describe changes in SIPA from the trauma scene to the ED. We used 2014-2016 Trauma Quality Improvement Program Data to identify blunt trauma patients 1-15 years old with an injury severity score (ISS) > 15. We calculated SIPA using vitals obtained at the trauma scene and on ED arrival. Outcome measures included ISS, transfusion within 24 h, intensive care unit (ICU), hospital length of stay (LOS), ventilator days, and mortality. We identified 2917 patients, and 34.2% had a persistently elevated SI from the injury scene to ED arrival, whereas 17.9% had a persistently elevated SIPA. An elevated SIPA at the trauma scene was more predictive of greater ISS, LOS, and ventilator requirements. Furthermore, a SIPA that remained abnormal was associated with greater ISS, LOS, ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and mortality. Prehospital SIPA values predict worse outcomes in pediatric trauma patients, and their change over time may have greater predictive utility than a single value alone. II TYPE OF STUDY: Prognosis Study.

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[Judge John Roberts] doesn’t appear to be crusading for a wholesale national retreat to the good old days of executing miscreant ‘tweens (although he seemingly finds arresting them for French-fry possession to be a cornerstone in good parent-child relations). I criticized an L.A. Times article yesterday for making it sound like Roberts approved of arresting a 12-year-old girl for eating a French Fry. I noted that anyone who actually bothers to read the opinion will plainly see that Roberts was unhappy that police arrested the girl. Beldar says that “one could at least defend the LAT’s writers and editors as being merely stupid instead of dishonest. Perhaps they never actually read the opinion, or lacked the training to understand it.” I’d say they might have been “lazy” rather than “stupid.” It takes no particular training to read the passages of the opinion in which Roberts expresses his disapproval of the police actions in that case. It just requires a reporter who cares about getting it right — at least enough to read the opinion. But, as Beldar also observes, it’s very hard to believe that Dahlia Lithwick, who is supposedly knowledgeable about the law, has not read the opinion. And if she hasn’t, what the hell good is she anyway? And don’t try to tell me that this is simply exaggeration, like her ridiculous comment about the United States executing “‘tweens” (typically used to refer to 9 to 12-year-olds) for being “miscreant,” when execution is possible only for murder. (“Mabel! Them kids done raped and murdered another young girl! Dang miscreants!”) That comment is simply the usual Lithwick nonsense: cheap shots and gross exaggeration. But the “French Fry” comment is either a lie (as Beldar believes) or an inexcusably sloppy misrepresentation from someone in Lithwick’s position. Folks, this is an important issue. The “John Roberts wants to arrest 12-year-olds for eating french fries” lie has to be nipped in the bud. It’s disturbing that someone as widely-read as Dahlia Lithwick believes that she can make a misrepresentation like this and get away with it. I am encouraging everyone with a blog who cares about a good judiciary to link Beldar’s post, and ask your readers to link it too. I also encourage each and every reader of mine to write Slate and demand a correction. The e-mail address is corrections@slate.com. Let’s show Lithwick that she can’t get away with something like this. UPDATE: Dahlia Lithwick has responded to Beldar. He sets forth her defense, and then utterly demolishes it, in this post. I am a big fan of Daylight Saving Time, and wish that they’d make it the default time year-round. It allows me to ride my bike in the evenings, or take the kids for a walk on the beach at sunset. Having an extra four weeks will be nice. Everyone knows that, like all good Republican lawyers, John G. Roberts Jr. is a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative law and public policy organization where right-of-center types meet to denounce liberalism and angle for jobs in the Bush administration. And practically everyone — CNN, the Los Angeles Times, Legal Times and, just yesterday, The Washington Post — has reported Roberts’s membership as a fact. One liberal group opposed to Roberts’s nomination, the Alliance for Justice, has noted it on its Web site. But they are wrong. John Roberts is not, in fact, a member of the Federalist Society, and he says he never has been. (My emphasis throughout.) And the author of the erroneous L.A. Times piece? It is co-written by our friend David Savage. (Henry Weinstein and Richard B. Schmitt also contributed to the piece. But Savage’s name comes first in the byline.) It seems like yesterday that I was talking about how David Savage often seems to get things wrong on the law and the judiciary — to the detriment of conservatives, naturally — when the Washington Post gets them right. (To be fair, the WaPo got this one wrong initially as well.) Of course, it wasn’t just yesterday that I made that complaint. It was three days ago. P.S. Amusingly, as has happened before, the editorial page got snookered by Savage’s reporting and embroidered it a bit, turning Roberts into a “fixture” (you hear that? Not just a member — a fixture!) at the Federalist Society: Roberts has long been a member of the Washington establishment, and a fixture in the Federalist Society. P.P.S. Clearly, a note to the Readers’ Representative is in order. And, of course, one has been sent. Naturally, I have asked where Savage got his information. One wonders whether it was from the web site of the liberal group Alliance for Justice . . . UPDATE 8-5-05: I have a post about the New York Times‘s decision to seek the adoption records of John Roberts’s children, here. First, the entire theme of the story, as indicated by the headline, is that Senate Democrats have not been critical of Roberts. But the story does not quote Dick Durbin, who sounded a bit critical in this Fox News story: “The president had an opportunity to unite the country with his Supreme Court nomination, to nominate an individual in the image of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Instead, by putting forward John Roberts’ name, President Bush has chosen a more controversial nominee and guaranteed a more controversial confirmation process,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who was one of three Democrats who voted against Roberts in 2003. I guess not all Democrats have chosen to “forgo discord.” Also, I love the way that O’Connor’s reaction to Roberts’ nomination is doctored by the L.A. Times: Some women’s groups said they were disappointed Bush had not named a woman to replace O’Connor. Even O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, expressed some discontent on that point. On a fishing trip in Idaho, she told the Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review: “He’s good in every way, except he’s not a woman.” Sounds positive, but a tad lukewarm. Except that you didn’t get the whole quote: Her first words were unequivocal: “That’s fabulous!” she said. She immediately described John G. Roberts as a “brilliant legal mind, a straight shooter, articulate, and he should not have trouble being confirmed by October. He’s good in every way, except he’s not a woman.” Conveys a slightly different flavor to read the whole thing, wouldn’t you say? An article in this morning’s L.A. Times hints at what Democrats’ strategy will be on Roberts. It’s the same phony strategy they used against Miguel Estrada, i.e., demand privileged government documents that no self-respecting Administration would ever give up: Several Democrats complained that Roberts had served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for only two years, and therefore had a limited judicial record. As a result, they were considering requesting copies of material he wrote when he served as deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush. “Given that his record of his own views is rather sparse … those kinds of documents should be available to us,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. Keep in mind that, when Democrats requested Miguel Estrada’s Solicitor General memoranda, it was a wholly unprecedented request, which had never been made of any of 67 nominees to the Circuit Courts of Appeals since 1977 who had worked at DoJ. 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Monthly Archives: June 2011 The inaugural event? A little indie flick called The Good Guy. NOT to be confused with The Good Girl, a movie only worth watching if you care for a little Aniston side-boob and Jake Gyllenhaal killing himself. Seriously, IT’S THAT GOOD. Alright, no more time to waste, LET’S ROLL! 1:20 – Ohhhh the daughter from Calico Gals in a tank and she’s with a shirtless dude. WHAT A HARLOT. 1:40 – Ok, so Mr. Friday Night Lights fucked up in some way. Asks, “Is it him?”. CG gives him a look of pity, says she feels sorry for him, sends his drenched ass on his way. Less than two minutes in and we know this guy is douche and he screwed things up with CG’s character. Whoever wrote this hopeful masterpiece needs to bone up on building suspense. YOU RUINED THE ENDING DOUCHEY McDIRECTERSON. 2:47 – MY GIRL IS IN THIS OMGLOLWTF!!11! 3:03 – Six weeks? This thing went to shit in a relative hurry. 3:53 – Apparently Andrew McCarthy is the only member of the Brat Pack to age well. Good for you, dude. 3:54 – Wow, what an asshole. 4:15 – Oh hai guy from One Tree Hill. If you’re anything like your role on that show, I’m guessing you’re gonna be the quiet, sensitive outsider that the main girl falls in love with when she realizes what she REALLY wants in a man. Oh. Wait. You were in the top three listed cast members? YOU’RE THE SHIRTLESS GUY WITH CALICO GAL! 9:30 – Urban conservationist…so she’s intelligent, socially conscious, mindful of history and doesn’t care if she lives poor as fuck. Of course she’d be with a douchey Wall Street day-trader. 12:10 – He’s good (further evidence that he’s a douche), and that scene was totally lifted from Boiler Room. This is really supposed to take place in 2009? 14:21 – This motherfucker is real good. 15:53 – Calico Gal slappin’ on a rubber. In the light? Who the hell is doing any of this in the goddamn light? And sober for that matter. Seriously, next time I want to get laid I’m taking a girl to Shanghai Bistro. LOOK HONEY IT’S JUST LIKE KYOTO! 19:21 Awwww shit Wally Cleaver is gonna get his shot. NO WAY this will end bad for anyone. But honestly, why wouldn’t FNL take a chance on OTH? We’re talking high stakes day-trading. Who wouldn’t risk their careers on some schmuck with a speech issue, no personality and zero history in the industry? It isn’t like he could simply throw that little ball in any direction and hit at least three people infinitely more qualified… 20:53 – They’re using the set and scene from Chasing Amy. Come on, really? 23:30 – CG: “So why do you wanna hire him?” GOOD QUESTION, CALICO GAL. 24:30 – Cell phone on your belt, dude? Really? 25: 31 – And what are the odds, CG shows up. FNL tells OTL to hit on his girlfriend. Of course that would happen in Osseo, Wisconsin. Wait. We’re in New York City? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. 26:50 – Well that was creepy as shit. 31:13 – Ruh roh. Douchey McDouchebag (the guy we ALREADY KNOW IS A DOUCHEBAG) is blowing off the girl he just nailed. 40:01 – Alright, we get it. OTH is socially awkward and FNL is a complete asshole. 42:55 – And apparently FNL is a player. I NEVER SAW THAT COMING. 45:34 – I hate my life. 47:01 – CG, in a moment of mind-boggling absurdity, approaches the creepy guy from the bookstore. Now, let’s think back. When she met this odd fella, she had just recently gave it up to a guy who put on the perfect date. At the book store the next day was she more likely to be thinking, “My, what a cute and charming guy!” or “OOOOOHHHH I’M SOOOO IN LOVE WAIT WHO IS THIS MENTAL PATIENT STALKING ME” Just sayin’. 48:56 – CG: “Wow. Very weird. But he likes books so let’s invite him over!” 53:00 – Wait, where the hell did everyone go? 55:00 – Alright, what the fuck. How does a guy go from wooing CG for two months, taking her on a dream date, to instantly becoming the world’s biggest inattentive asshole. Conversely, how does she have this super duper dream date, give it up and days later is already pondering how a guy with a library card may be better for her. Come the fuck on. 56:39 – No chick is that nuts. Especially one that hot. 57:41 – Wait, why does CG have OTH’s number? And even if it was for book club reasons, she’s calling him instead of her girlfriends. 58:23 – “Why don’t you have a girlfriend?” Wut. “So are you interested in anyone these days?” Christ. “Do I know her?” YOU’VE KNOWN HIM FOR LIKE SIX SECONDS YOU MORON. 1:00:00 = “Are you drinking?” awwww poor My Girl. 1:00:53 = Checking out another girl? This filmmaker needs a cock-punch. 1:07:30 – The shark has officially been jumped. She’s talking about the book that this piece of shit has been based on. Look, I don’t mind being hit with the metaphorical blunt object from time to time, but really? This is ridiculous. “You kind of just trust the narrator out of habit. But just as you’re getting into it he just turns out to be full of shit.” HOLY BALLS IS THAT WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? “What’s the point of that?” No-Fucking-Shit. Good call, CG. 1:10:03 – I run into someone in Eau Claire, WI and it’s a big coincidence. CG runs into OTH’s other woman (someone she recognizes somehow) and we’re supposed to buy it. Right. 1:11:20 – Of course he’s out with another girl. 1:13:41 – …and of course he calls every girl in his phone (from work? really?) instead of the two sure-things. It’s almost as if the filmmakers were trying to drive home the point that the narrator was full of shit. Huh. I hadn’t gotten that in the previous 1:13:41. 1:17:39 – I know when I’ve got my ass beat before, my wallet is the first to go. 1:19:47 – …and then I look to pay for it. 1:21:24 – And why wouldn’t CG run off to see the awkward, possibly taken for all she knows guy she’s talked with about three times? 1:23:45 – Srsly, CG is hella easy. 1:26:06 – Wait. Is there a moral of the story here? Who are we feeling sorry for? Who came out on top? The girl who’s funding was cut? The ex-military man with $100 grand in student loans and no job? FNL still has his dream job and he’s obviously not broken up over losing CG. This movie was awful. So the asshole was an asshole and if it weren’t for a string of impossible coincidences, abrupt and illogical changes of character and implausible decisions, he’d still be balancing four chicks. In the process of suspending your belief, imagine Calico Gal falling for an awkward social reject because he could quote lines from Pride and Prejudice. You know what kind of guy memorizes lines from that book? CHILD MOLESTERS. There is nothing good about The Good Guy. That wasn’t even a pun, I’m just that more stupid having watched that piece of shit.

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"I'm trying to follow the tick-tick-tick/ At the heart of the nation!"The Dead 60s 'Nationwide' If the resurgent British rock scene of the last twelve months has given us plenty to celebrate, it has also been lacking one vital element: a band young, smart and articulate enough to genuinely reflect the look and and feel of life in the UK as we enter mid-decade. A group who can hard-wire the paranoid skank of A Certain Ratio, the social awareness of The Clash and still have razor-creases in their sta-press whilst they do it. Time to meet The Dead 60s (Matt McManamon: guitar/vocals, Ben Gordon :guitar/organ, Charlie Turner: bass, Bryan Johnson: drums). They're from Liverpool, but crucially, they don't have to be. Rather than trawl through the typically rizzla-heavy 'vibes' of The La's, Love and Beefheart for inspiration (the name is a dig at the Mersey seal of approval "you sound dead 60s"), they will happily namecheck anyone with an eye for the dancefloor, regardless of age or era. Expect to hear traces of everything from Desmond Dekker, The Skatalites, Lee 'Scratch' Perry to Public Image Ltd, Happy Mondays and The Cure. Lyrically, like The Specials before them, they deliver a pin-sharp commentary on the world around them; a country where city centres have become boozy no-go zones after dark, deserted but for whirring CCTV's; where new towns breed discontent and even a walk home from the pub carries with it the ever-present threat of danger. The result is a group set to provoke and excite in equal measure. "We're not rejecting the traditional Liverpool sound" explains Charlie. "We're just tapping into a different kind of history, which is just as relevant. It makes sense to us to sing about things people can relate to their own lives, like buildings getting knocked down to be replaced by car parks and the effect it has. Or how bad new towns are, and how difficult it is to get out of them and create your own life. It's the sound of growing up surrounded by concrete, in a city where it's always pissing down with rain.." The back story goes like this: formed in South Liverpool by two rival school bands (Charlie: "We consider ourselves a supergroup!"), the boys had been formulating musical ideas from an early age. Tracing their love of Jamaican ska, punk and dub via relatives' record collections, they spent eight months in the studio "learning to play like the Wailers" before attracting the attention of eagle-eyed Deltasonic boss Alan Wills, who signed the band to the label barely a year after they'd formed. If the spook-core skank of first single 'You're Not The Law' first displayed their trademark 'horrorshow ska', it was Top 20 follow-up 'Riot Radio' which suggested The '60s' were set for, erm, ska-dom. Two minutes and twenty-two seconds of seriously infectious agit-pop. It wasn't so much an incitement to violence as a celebration of drummer Bryan's spoof phone calls to local radio legend Pete Price. As well as earning them an NME Single of the Week ("a slam bang-up-to-date rendering of ska, Franz Ferdinand and King Tubby") it also brought the band to the attention of a certain Stephen Morrissey. Next thing, the band were packing their Fred Perry's for touring duties with Moz. "Although he personally selected us for the tour, we never got to meet him" muses Charlie. "Though I did see him peaking around the stage curtain at us a couple of times!" In between releasing chart-topping singles (their recent offering 'The Last Resort' finished in the Top 20), the band penned a management deal with the mighty Q Prime (home of Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Metallica), ripped through three headline tours, watched in disbelief as 'Riot Radio' became #3 Most Added track at Alternative Radio (behind Coldplay and The White Stripes) in the US and proved the universal language of the dancefloor during a raptuously received Japanese debut at Summer Sonic (Charlie: "I don't know how many of the lyrics they understood, but they must have liked it because they didn't stop moving"). Somewhere betwixt all this the band returned to Liverpool and set about recording their fire-cracker live set for posterity. The result is the stunning debut album 'The Dead 60s'. Recorded over six weeks at 'The Ranch' with maverick local producer 'Central Nervous System', the claustrophobic conditions served as Liverpool's answer to Lee Perry's 'Ark' studios. "It was like recording in a garden shed!" explains Charlie. "There's an old desk and no natural light so you lose sense of what time of day it is. We'd just jam songs for ages and slowly the right versions would come through." Recording in such an environment has drilled the band's looser grooves with a genuine menace. 'Red Light' pitches skeletal rhythms to the sort of spooked commentary once the preserve of The Skatalites, whilst the sparse 'New Town Disaster' is a damning indictment of the townplanners dream gone seriously wrong ("The industries dead/Packed up and gone/In this tabloid town"). Meanwhile, 'We Get Low' is the Dead '60s at their most light-hearted, reaching beyond the rhetoric to show off what King Tubby and Ennio Morricone might have sounded like had they grown up in the backstreets of Merseyside. Amidst the sirens and the rhythm of the falling rain there are moments of genuine gruff dance-floor genius too. If 'Control This' and 'Loaded Gun' reflect the jittery punk-funk throb of the early Mondays, the real pay-off comes with 'Nowhere'; a gothic, spliff-at-midnight mantra. It's an indication that The Dead '60's have the capacity to document city life for years to come. "We were listening to bands like The Smiths and The Cure, as well as the usual dub, punk and reggae during recording and I think that's helped create this atmosphere" confirms Charlie. "It's a city album. At the end of recording each night we had to walk home through this dodgy area and that paranoia creeps into the music." Not much! Thirteen razor-cut songs aimed at both the head and the feet. Thirteen songs which stand head and shoulders above their peers and serve as proof that observation of life's bitterest pills often brings the most valuable rewards. But enough of the theorising. Turn up the bass and get lost in the grooves yourself. As a wise man once said: F--- art, let's dance!

Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said racists think President Donald Trump is a racist. Discussing the man who allegedly killed 50 people last week at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and citing Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” Booker said, “It’s not only hate in New Zealand, we have hate groups here. We have hate leaders, David Duke and others, that see him as their president. Here’s a guy that couldn’t condemn Nazis. Whose bigoted language from the time of the campaign—talk about pulling the race card, he came down that escalator and started talking about Mexicans and Muslims, started talking about the divisions in America. When asked if Trump is racist, Booker said, “Racists think he’s a racist and his language hurts people. His language is causing pain, fear. The way he is talking is making people afraid. I was down at Mother Emmanuel Church. I have talked to people that are afraid in South Carolina, where there was a hate crime. People who are afraid to go worship at a mosque or a synagogue because hate is on the rise and these hate incidents are on the rise. We have a president that can’t stand up with any moral authority and remind us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, and it’s despicable.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

A Griz In Washington’s Cascades? First thing this morning a friend forwarded me a string of messages related to a possible grizzly sighting early last month in the rugged mountains of eastern Snohomish County, Wash. A hiker wandering up the Blanca Lake trail — a real bastard that I nearly killed another friend on once (actually twice, going up and coming down) — snapped at least two shots of a large bear feeding in grass beside a lake with her iPhone. The email forward included one of the two shots, which showed the animal’s belly and lower body is black, its topside a mix of dark browns. There’s an apparent hump behind the neck; its head is down in the grass. The string also had the phone number for a U.S. Forest Service biologist who commented on the images to colleagues. And, since I’m a sucker for distractions of any sort on deadline week of putting the magazine together — especially those only tangentially related to Northwest hunting or fishing — I immediately let my fingers do the walking. After speaking with the bio for awhile, I emailed my friend a long, windy response, and that, dear reader, will have to serve as the nut of this blog post: Goddamnit, Bell, I really DID NOT need this distraction on deadline for the next magazine … So the guy I talked to, Don Gay, referenced in the email, received two pictures, one of which is attached while he says the other shows the bear’s head up. He says the photos clarity aren’t really that good, but he sent both off to a slew of grizzly bear biologists. He did not tell them where the images came from as a kind of control (if you tell them the shots came from Arkansas, are they likely to view them objectively?) Two-thirds of the bios thought that the pic of the animal with its head down and the hump up could be a grizzly. But it was 50-50 whether it really was griz in the head’s-up pic; he says in that one, the hump is less pronounced. He says you need hits on at least two different characteristics to tell if it’s “probable” whether it’s griz or not — so things like ears, hump and face. A hump might just be shoulder blades on a black bear feeding with its head down and maybe front legs cocked at funny angles. However, if you get a front paw print, yahtzee, it’s morphologically different than anything else [in the bear world] and it can serve as a confirmation that the beast leaving those claw marks on your chest is, indeed, a grizzly. Back to the two shots: “Basically, it means it’s inconclusive,” Gay says. [He notes that] there’s a study going on in the northern Cascades to see if there’s any genetic differentiation going on amongst populations of black bears, bobcats and martens between Washington’s major east-west highway passes, and as part of that, researchers have deployed dozens of baits and barbed wire. After the Blanca Lake sighting, one was put in the vicinity of (but not by) the trail to see if any hair samples might turn up. Samples are apparently collected every few weeks, but DNA results won’t be available until next spring. In Washington’s North Cascades bear recovery area, there hasn’t been a confirmed grizzly since 1996, and it wasn’t that far from where an auditory report came from this summer [on the Pacific Crest Trail near Glacier Peak]. While the reporting party is adamant it was a bear, Gay wasn’t so sure — maybe a cougar, who knows. (BEARINFO.ORG) I told the bio I was kind of surprised that, despite gobs of grizzly habitat from Mt. Baker to the east edge of the Pasayten to Snoqualmie Pass, there are no … grizzlies. What the hell’s up with that? Basically, he says that low numbers beget low and then lower numbers. The estimate that’s always thrown out there for how many grizzlies might be in the North Cascades is 20, but he corrected me on that. “It’s between zero and 20 … It’s real possible there are none on the U.S. side. We do know that in April, there was one on the Canadian side,” he said. Where there are bears, there are sightings. He points to examples in Yellowstone and the Continental Divide of Montana, where bear numbers were once low, but have since grown. Along with all that growth have been A) more and more and more reports, and B) lots of dead grizzlies. Back in Washington’s North Cascades, the last confirmed griz mortality in the recovery area occurred now 43 years ago. I wrote about that one in F&H, recall. It was shot by a hunter in the Thunder Creek area and reported on in the Skagit Valley Herald. “If there is a remaining population, it’s clearly on its way to going extinct,” Gay says. And that’s unlikely to change unless bears are reintroduced, he says. With the hubbub about the wolves, I had to ask the next logical question. So …. the Feds planning on dropping any bears into the North Cascades? “All that’s really happened is that the recovery area’s been established,” he says. There’s been no attempt by USFWS to figure out what to do next. So there you go. I think from now on, I’m going to send you off on wild goose chases when you’re busy. Friends, you gotta love them. But in retrospect, it was actually a very interesting start to the day, and it will be interesting to find out if any hair turns up in the bait station the researchers set up in the area (it should be noted that Gay says the station was NOT near the trail so as to avoid human-bear conflicts). For more on the carnivore/transportation study going on in the Cascades, see KING 5’s story from late August. That piece also mentions a “pretty good” report in 2008 from the Chiwawa River Valley, which is in the recovery area. Elsewhere in Washington, a grizzly was mistaken for a black bear in Pend Oreille County in 2007 and shot. Two men were convicted and sentenced to five years probation, suspended from hunting for two years, sent back to remedial hunter’s ed, ordered to both pay $3,000 fines and together come up $14,857 payable to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Pics posted on Hunting-Washington earlier this year also purportedly from PoCo show a large bear with grizzly-like features. And in 2003, a rancher spotted one near Chesaw. Hair samples collected from a fence came back “positive for a grizzly bear,” says Jeff Heinlein, a WDFW wildlife biologist. Chesaw is east of the recovery area. Heinlein says that after the sighting, there were no more reports of the bear. “As compared to other samples in the lab’s data base, the bear was most closely related to bears from the Selkirks,” adds his boss, Scott Fitkin, district wildlife biologist for Okanogan County. UPDATE 3:30 P.M., SEPT. 17, 2010: Here’s a link to a New York Times article yesterday on the search for grizzly bears in the North Cascades. UPDATE 10:27 A.M., SEPT. 29, 2010: A few days ago Don Gay sent me an update from bear researchers who’ve placed two bait and barbed wire traps near Blanca. They collected some giant bear poop and a mess of hair, most of which was black but some was brown. Trail cam shots captured at least two black bears hanging out, but one of them decided to play with the camera so that the next series of shots are messed up, though show a large eyeball and some brown fur. LARGE CREATURE. (USFS) The researchers think they will be able to determine what brand of bears came a’calling through the hair and scat samples, though those results won’t be back from the lab for months. One Response to “A Griz In Washington’s Cascades?” My name is Lance and I am the “reporting party” who reported the auditory encounter in Glacier Peak Wilderness to biologist Mr Don Gay (I still have his initial voicemail on my cell phone.) I am both disappointed and more than a little angry that Mr Gay – after talking to me at length – concluded I had had an encounter with a cougar and had (apparently to his mind) confused a cat call and the deeper, fundamentally different-sounding roar of a much larger animal. Simply put, that is nonsense. Balderdash. Rubbish. It is the height of presumptious arrogance for Mr Gay to have completely dismissed my experience, report, and veracity out of hand and concluded that my experience was something so dissimilar to what actually happened as to be laughable. I had been forewarned that modern wildlife biologists were an arrogant lot. I am now am a firm believer and doubt quite seriously I will ever again bother to talk to one again. What’s the point? For background, I am 54 years old, my dad had been a logger back in the day, I grew up on a farm, have been around animals from small rodents to 1000+ pound domesticated animals all my life, have been going into the woods since I was a small child, have had the privalage of having had three cougar encounters, and have been around no small number of bear. Further, like virtually everyone else with any interest in the backcountry and internet access, I have been exposed to no end of recordings and video of both bear and cougar making all sorts of vocalizations. Without going into details, the short version is that there is no way in hell that the animal I encountered was a cougar. I have never asserted exactly what it was, but it was absolutely with 100% certitude NOT a cat/couger/mountain lion. No way, no how, absolutely not. Period. Exclamation mark. If it was a bear, it also not a typical 100-200 pound Washington black bear. It was a large animal. I estimate that in order to make the volume and nature of sound that the animal did and have it reverberate (NOT echo – REVERBERATE) the way it did, that animal had to be at least (at an absolute bare rock-bottom minimum) 300+ pounds and I’d estimate that it was actually much (MUCH) larger than even that. I would refer Mr Gay to the cover of July 2nd 2011 Seattle Times for a picture of the type of “cougar” I had an encounter with. LIke I said, the height of presumptious arrogance.

Two preschool supervisors are on paid leave due to the alleged abuse of children. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville oversees Head Start — a program for 4- and 5-year-olds. According to accusations, a 26-year-old Head Start teacher was punishing her toddlers by making them strip naked and get in a closet. What the freakin’ crap?? As per SIUE Chief of Police Kevin Schmoll, speaking to KMOV4: “Children would misbehave in class and the teacher would have them disrobe and stand them, make them stand inside a closet for five or 10 minutes as their discipline. Then they would redress and join the class.” KMOV4 reports that 4 of the 20 children were made to endure such degrading and frightening treatment. The teacher began the regimen as early as February, though authorities weren’t notified ’til last Thursday. In an interview with The Southern Illinoisan, Schmoll praised the strength of the first child who came forward: “The little boy who first reported it was very brave for coming forward. That is how we were able to discover this in the first place.” In addition to the teacher who forced the naked kids into the closet, a 41-year-old instructor watched the abuse and did not report it. She, too, has been placed on leave. To this, I believe we all say good, good, and GOOD. –If the allegations are correct, of course. And if so, the 26-year-old is a very demented person who should never again be put in any position of authority over a child. Or possibly even a dog. A cat may be okay — they’re already naked, and they love hangin’ out by themselves. On the topic of abuse: If you haven’t already, please read my article on the Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland. And join the discussion here. I look forward to hearing from you. -Alex Relevant RedState links in this article: here. See 3 more pieces from me: falsely accused of rape, exonerated for rape, and a Taco Bell beatdown. Find all my RedState work here. And please follow Alex Parker on Twitter and Facebook. Thank you for reading! Please sound off in the Comments section below. For iPhone instructions, see the bottom of this page.    If you have an iPhone and want to comment, select the box with the upward arrow at the bottom of your screen; swipe left and choose “Request Desktop Site.” If it fails to automatically refresh, manually reload the page. Scroll down to the red horizontal bar that says “Show Comments.”

“Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, today i-is Friday, Friday, we-we-we so excited, we so excited We gonna have a ball today. Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards. I don't want this weekend to end.” No, that isn’t a quote from a preschooler proudly showing that she finally knows the days of the week. Sadly, those are lyrics to “Friday”: what Ark Music Factory and the singer, Rebecca Black, hoped would be the next “big hit”, but has been repeatedly described as, “the worst song ever.” Four minutes of auto-tuned garbage that makes your brain rot and drives you to turn the crap off and listen to some Justin Bieber. Pathetic isn’t it? And it gets worse. Check out the music video. Rebecca goes to the bus stop to “catch her bus” but then instead gets into a car driven by her thirteen year old friends (but only after she takes way too much time deciding whether she should choose the front seat or the back seat.) By the way, she never seems to make it to school. Instead, she spends the remainder of her weekend, “Partying, partying, YEAH!” with her pre-teen buddies, when they really should be at home finishing up their homework and playing board games or something. Let’s do some background on her and this, umm, “production”: Rebecca’s mom paid Ark Music Factory, a California talent agency, to write and produce a song and a music video with her daughter. Rebecca said she hoped that this would jump-start her singing career. Both she and her mother were aware of the ridiculous lyrics. So, the video was uploaded to YouTube on March 11, 2011. It is now the 24th. As of this moment, her music video has 43,576,329 views, and her song has sold thousands of copies on iTunes. I think the question everyone is asking has changed from, “Is this some kind of joke?” to “How the HECK is the girl getting so much attention?!?!?!?” That question was answered by Lady Gaga. “I think Rebecca Black is a genius,” she said. And in a way, she is. Think about it. You hit two markets in one shot. First, you get all the “Bieber-lovers” who are so used to music that makes your ears bleed and means nothing that they actually enjoy the song. Then, you also get the people in their teens and early twenties who just love to hear about something like this so they can tear it to shreds and prove to the world through their witty criticism and commentary that this song is unbelievably horrible. And as they say, any publicity is good publicity. Do you think Rebecca Black cares the least bit that most of her hits and downloads are from people who hate the song? Why should she? They’re still hits and downloads, and she still making loads of money off of all these haters. It’s actually a pretty sad fact about our culture. When’s the last time something spread all over the world so fast because it was really, really good? Is “Friday” really the worst song ever? No. It’s auto-tuned like crazy, the lyrics sound like something my 5-year old sister would come up with, and the music video is cheesy and makes little to no sense at some points. Honestly, it sounds like one of the many dance songs that are all over the radio by people like J-Sean and Pitbull. It could be one of those lame songs that the Disney Channel kids do but because they have such a massive marketing machine behind them, no one even questions the stupidity of the lyrics. If I had first heard of it in either one of those settings, I probably wouldn’t have even given it a second thought. And on the subject of her actual singing voice, it was so auto-tuned that you don’t even get to see what her voice sounds like. So I guess the final question is, “Was this really all a genius plot to come up with an insanely laughable song knowing that, being the critics we are, it would be an immediate hit and both AMF and Rebecca Black would make a nice amount of money? Or was this just a girl with a dream and some song writers who really thought this song could be something and figured they’d give it a shot?

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The relationship of children's attitudes toward alcohol to their value development. Developmentally, attitudes toward casual alcohol use and toward the abuse of alcohol should be related to the development of value content and value structure. Two studies were conducted that found this to be generally so with upper elementary schoolchildren. A negative attitude toward the abuse of alcohol was definitely related to general measures of the internalization of those values necessary to be a part of any group as well as the rejection of acts generally considered to be deviant in our culture. Attitudes toward casual use of alcohol were also somewhat related, but not as strongly. However, alcohol attitudes were unrelated to stage of moral development or other measures of thinking processes. Some shifts across age and sex were also noted. Programs oriented toward the prevention of alcohol abuse may need to communicate the value norms of our society and can proceed without impacting attitudes toward casual alcohol use.

A planned hotel and conference center project at the University of Maryland could transform College Park into a top college town. Recently, this $115 million project has taken an important step towards the start of construction. A planned hotel and conference center project at the University of Maryland could transform College Park into a top college town. Recently, the $115 million project took an important step toward the start of construction. On March 19, the three-member State of Maryland Board of Public Works unanimously approved the declaration of a three-acre parcel of university land as surplus. Last year, the university revealed its plans to sell the parcel, located on the east side of campus, opposite Turner Hall, to the UMD College Park Foundation. This strategy will minimize the university’s exposure to the project. The full responsibility for the project will be transfered to the foundation. It will develop the new hotel and conference center together with Southern Management Corp. Considered one of the region’s top places to work, Southern Management Corp. was selected as development partner following a Request for Expressions of Interest process. The project is expected to break ground in spring 2015 and could open by fall 2017. “The hotel and conference center project is a crucial element in the revitalization of our campus community within Prince George’s County,” said Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, in a statement for the press. “I thank the members of the Board of Public Works for their approval so we can move this important project forward.” The university said it expects the project to encourage redevelopment of the existing downtown College Park business district and have an important economic impact on the entire region. Overall, it will create 1,637 jobs, increase overall economic activity by more than $62 million per year and generate over $4.4 million in state and local tax revenues annually.

Q: SpriteKit - Better way to remove object after contact detection What is the better way for removing object after certain contact/collision detection: Remove it in didBeginContact/didEndContact when contact occurs. Add object which needs to be removed into an array and remove it in didSimulatePhysics after the whole physics simulation is done Put contact (SKPhysicsContact) object into the array and process it in the update method (everything from didBeginContact/didEndContact is removed to one custom method and called within update:) and after every contact is processed, continue with step 2. A: In all of the code I've seen and from everything I've done, Option 1 seems like the best choice. The reason is that didBeginContact has everything that is needed to handle collisions. Each time it is called, there is a new SKPhysicsContact object, which allows for you to identify everything in the collision. If you need to remove an object, then why not do it there or call another method from inside didBeginContact. Also, timing-wise, you have a lot more control inside of didBeginContact than you would if you involved update or tried to use didSimulatePhysics. It makes it needlessly complicated by calling update; you would have rewrite the array each time there is a collision to make sure you aren't using the old SKPhysicsContact object. But, each situation is different so it's hard to judge right now when the other options would be more appropriate. edit: Sometimes it would be better to not use didBeginContact. For example, if you wanted to change positions or remove the affected objects in the collision but at the same time wanted to see the elastic collision of the physics bodies take place, then you wouldn't want to change the didBeginContact.

Reason to get in unbanned: well 😐 really don't know why but I really other than I. Really want to I spent so much time on that server and in that time I made lots of friend and awesome things with and just over all good thing. But that not really a reason..... Any was I want to continue making friends and helping people Evan tho I will never get my VIP back 😢and won't be trusted but that's wont stop me from helping :D I just hope u guys can see it the way I do :( thanks for the good times :) Ps this is to silent assian if he is reading this I'm sorry for being a jerk and kicking you after you kicked me it was strait out of anger if you can ever forgive me then thanks but all I have to say is sorry. I hope you realize what you did was absolutely unacceptable. Crashing my server (even simply trying to) says to the staff that you don't want to be here, and that you do not respect what they are doing and how much work they have put into their jobs. Also, it's funny to me that you apologize to your friend, but not to the administrators or staff. If you love the server so much, and made so many friends, then why did you feel it was necessary to pull such a nasty little stunt? So, tell me why I should unban you? How do I know you won't just do it all again? You seem to like the server very much and I still do not understand why you would go on a crashing and kicking rampage. It's obvious you've spent a lot of time on the server, considering your (late) VIP status. And perhaps I'm reading too much into your post, but it seems you genuinely want to be unbanned, as you have a lot of experiences and fun times on the server. I get it. You've got a nasty temper; one that doesn't go so well with VIP privileges. As a VIP, you are a role model to other players. You strive to be a shining example of good behavior, following in the footsteps of the administrators that you may one day join their ranks yourself. What you fail to realize, however, is that your temper is not the kind of message we want being displayed when people join our server. I don't play a role in who gets assigned what rank, but I can't reasonably foresee your VIP status being returned if you were to be unbanned. On top of that, I find it downright insulting that you give the staff this poor excuse of an unban appeal - one filled with typos and run-on sentences - all because you're on your iPod. Do you really expect us to take you seriously after your temper tantrum, server crash attempt, with nothing to make up for it but this? well 😐 really don't know why but I really other than I. Really want to I spent so much time on that server and in that time I made lots of friend and awesome things with and just over all good thing. Something like a language barrier is one thing, but using an iPod does not excuse the fact that your "writing mite suck". I own an apple phone myself, and I can tell you from experience that it's not some grueling process using a touch screen to convey coherent English. If it's that much of a problem to use your iPod, wait until you get on your computer to type out something the admins can actually decipher. I apologize if this comes off as mean/rude/too harsh/whatever, as it's not my intention to offend. However, there's something you have to realize. Every week, there are hundreds of man-hours that are being put into the server, whether it be anything between server maintenance (keeping and hosting the server on top of many other duties) like Sam, or simply managing it (making sure everyone gets along, follows the rules, etc.), like myself. The fact that you, among a handful of other players, find it so easy to throw all of that out the window by crashing the server astounds me. This is why server crash attempts are such a serious matter, and why they usually wind up leading to permanent bans. In the end, it's not my decision whether or not you get unbanned, but I hope you've got a better perspective of the severity of your actions through my post. well i now i used some language and said some hateful things that i should have never said.......and i didn't mean for any staff to stop what they are doing just so they can yell at me and ban me Evan tho i knew they were i just was to post cause lag for a sec then i was gonna delete it and now i know that wasn't a good idea........ and if i get unbanned i'm going to get rid of the dupe that screwed me over Did you even glance over what Mezi or I said?Part of the ban appeal format is putting effort into your appeal.The fact that you don't even want to capitalize your 'i's is indicative of how much you really care. Quote well i now i used some language and said some hateful things This is not why you were banned. You were banned because you crashed the server and abused the VIP privileges which were entrusted to you. Quote i didn't mean for any staff to stop what they are doing just so they can yell at me and ban me Again, not why you were banned. Quote i just was to post cause lag for a sec then i was gonna delete it and now i know that wasn't a good idea Do you seriously need me to paste the log of you spamming 96 torpedos again? Here's the bottom line:Crashing the server is among one of the worst possible offenses a user can commit. The explanation you are giving us are not sufficient. I will give you one more chance to appeal. If I were you, I'd wait until you can get on a computer and not risk staying banned over typing on your ipod. Unless your next post is a coherent, well-written and thoughtful apology for abusing your powers and crashing the server, you will not be unbanned. Make another post in a new thread following the proper format. Take a look at other successful ban appeals before you post to get an idea of what format you should use.

"The public must be put in its place, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd." - Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922 Wednesday, November 03, 2004 The Death of Common Sense OK, the Democrats have folded like the a cheap suit ... again! They appear to have learned nothing in the four years since the coup d'etat in 2000. The neo-cons stole the last election, in part at least, because Gore and the democrats were unwilling to keep fighting for the truth and because they underestimated the lengths to which the neo-cons would go to advance their agenda. So what happened this time around. Immediate concession. No questioning of the discrepancy between exit polls and the results. No discussion of the fact that exit polling had, prior to the use of electronic voting, been extremely accurate. No comparison of the exit poll discrepancies and the use of e-voting. I'm listening right now to John Edwards say all the right things about the importance of every vote counting. So will that mean they'll wait until all votes are counted? Nope, here comes John Kerry to piss on all those uncounted votes and concede, while at the same time continuing to talk about how important counting the votes are. This is why I hate the two-party system. Any minute now we'll start hearing about moving on and putting the divisiveness of the election behind us. In other words, you've done your civic duty by voting, now go back to bed, America. We'll take it from here. Go back to your soap operas, celebrity worship, sporting spectacles, and trying to feed your family. We can count on the media to deliver the press releases to us, the bewildered herd, and keep us shielded from uncomfortable truths. Except, of course, when they make us feel afraid in order to sway opinion in their direction, such as the lying that kept California's three-strikes law intact (we wouldn't want to stop people going to jail for the rest of their lives for stealing a loaf of bread, would we? Not while there's money to be made in building prisons.) and gay marriage illegal in eleven states. Am I so far outside the mainstream now that I simply can't understand what's in people's hearts? Where is common sense? Has it finally died? Why would 51% of the voting public continue to support economic policies that give everything to the richest 1%? Why would 51% of the voting public continue to support killing our brave soldiers and innocent civilians for the sake of oil? Why would 51% of the voting public continue to support destroying the environment in which we all live? Why would 51% of the voting public continue to support being lied to at an unprecedented level. I can't remember ever feeling so angry at my fellow Americans, to the idiots who couldn't be bothered to vote, the idiots who voted against their own interests, and the idiots who voted to send their sons and daughters to be drafted and killed for private interests. Of course, that assumes the election results are indeed the true will of people which I'm not willing to concede just yet until more information comes to light. It's a black day in the Brookston household today. And with the neo-cons in power again for another four years, I'm truly afraid for the future our nation and especially for the future of our children. This is not simply the case of one party over another. This is a true revolutionary shift in power that places all of us, the people, as second class citizens whose opinions will not matter one iota. Corporate interests and the interests of the super-rich will inform every decision for the next four years. And we let it happen. It's not Orwellian, it's much more like Huxley's Brave New World. But it's neither brave nor new. We're entering, as Morris Berman so articulately stated it in his brilliant The Twilight of American Culture, a new dark age where religious fundamentalism, feudal-like power structures (corporations), and a peculiar reverence for ignorance are the order of day. And we the people are nothing but a quaint notion.

Your browser has JavaScript turned off.You will experience a more enjoyable time at this web site if you turn JavaScript on. Diablo Woodworkers Celebrate a Concord Valley Oak Tree Would you buy a house because of a beautiful Tree in the yard? Well, one Concord homeowner did just that. This wonderful, beautiful tree's life came to an end in September of 2003, not because of the tree's fault. Yes, the tree caused a danger to the homeowner and the neighborhood. Who's fault is this? It is the fault of humans that settled to close to this magnificent tree. We built houses, roads, and parked cars at its feet. We strung power lines through its branches. Loved by the homeowner and the neighborhood and known to the City of Concord due to the damage this tree caused. Yes, and it continued to grow and grow competing for space with we humans. The moral of the story is, don't put humans and their property in the way of a 300 year old Valley Oak. The homeowner called in the Diablo Woodworkers, a club that was founded at the start of 1997 to serve interested woodworkers in the Diablo Valley of the San Francisco East Bay Area, to help preserve the tree's remains rather than see it go only as firewood. The items displayed are made from the wood of this 300 year old giant. Each item shows the creativity of the artist/woodworker (all members of the Diablo Woodworkers) and retains the internal beauty of the tree. We thank the homeowner for thinking of us so that we could help create new life for the wood from this tree. The Concord Valley Oak craft items are in the Concord Gallery, 1765 Galindo in Concord, 925-691-6140, November 1 - December 31. Lots of parking behind the building. Open day/hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm. There will be a reception on December 4th 2 - 4 pm. If you enjoy watercolor paintings you should know this gallery is sponsored by the California Water Color Society that has a large wonderful ongoing display in the gallery. Thanks go to Bob Chapla for arranging for us to show our woodwork in this gallery. A big thanks to all the woodworkers that used their imaginations to come up with some great creations from this wonderful wood. There are about 25 items that are on display from the 300 year old Valley Oak, you can see many of these items at Concord Oak Wood CraftsOne of the Concord oak craft displays at the Concord Gallery.

"He's back." "I knew it!" "(NICKI) Mm?" "Who?" " This nutter." "He's stalking me." " (NICKI) Who?" "Craig summat." "He wanted to buy hash off us, but I'm not doing business with 'im." " Why?" " 'Cause he's on a blacklist." "Oh." "Who else is on this blacklist?" "Just 'im." "He's top of the list." "I get a really bad feeling from him." "I don't want him in the house." "Look at the prannock." "He's got a sweatshirt with a massive dope leaf on it." " It's just the kind of advertisement I need (!" ")" " Oh, come away from the window." "He's the stalker." "He should be hiding from me." "Moz?" "I thought you'd given up smoking in bed." "Yeah, deffo." "Never again." "Is that right?" " (KNOCK AT DOOR)" " Nicki, are you gonna be long?" "Yes." "(SINGING ALONG) # So we're dreaming" "# Dream" "# Shadows on the hill" "# Do, do, do #" "(SINISTER MUSIC)" "# Mm-mm-mm..." "If you're good at washing up, I'll marry you." "No, don't." "Don't." "I hardly know ya." "Don't... (NICKI) Mm, yeah, I know." "Well, yeah, you see." "That's the way it goes." "I know, yeah." "All right, then, love." "All right, then." "I'll see you soon." "Tara." " I'm off down the launderette." " Aaah!" "Fuck!" " Oh, keep still!" " Ow!" "Agony pie." " I'm always getting knife wounds." " What are you?" "Mr Gangland?" "When 'ave you had a knife wound?" "Remember that restaurant?" "Last time we went to Cardiff?" "You stabbed yourself with a corn holder." "I got me tongue pierced for free." "Should 'ave sued." "Talked like Chris Eubank for a fortnight." "I know." "My mum thought you were pissed the whole time." "Yeah, well, I was." "What's the sense of being in Cardiff sober?" "!" "(WHISPERS) Ow!" " What have you done to your hand?" " Knife wound." "Gangland thing." "What about your injury?" "Multiple sclerosis isn't an injury, it's a disease." " So it's not getting any better, then?" " No, it's getting worse." "There you go, Sangita." "Really hope that, er...cheers you up." " They reckon I should have about a year." " No!" "Sangita!" "A whole year off work!" "Nice one." "No." "A year until I die." "I knew it were too good to be true." "So, you...gonna put yer feet up and get wasted for a year, are ya?" "I'm going on holiday, as it happens." "Going swimming with the dolphins." " They reckon dolphins can cure people." " You mean doctors, surely?" "Dolphins are actually really intelligent animals." "It's about time fish got the credit they deserved, innit?" "I'm thinking of learning to swim meself." "Y'know, but...not with dolphins." "With armbands." "Really (?" ")" " And dolphins aren't fish, they're mammals." " No, that's dogs." "No." "Dolphins are definitely mammals." "Well, there you go, then." "You've still got it up there, despite your "muhhh"!" " Sharp as a bread-knife." " I'll be off." " Do you, er...want any help with the front door?" " No, you rest your hand (!" ")" "Yeah, you're probably right." "I've gotta sign on on Tuesday." "Never stops." "Twenty-four seven." " All right, Colin?" "Fancy a mojo?" " Er...no, ta, Moz." "I'm on probation." " Hiya, Colin." "All right?" " Yeah." "Just tryin' to earn a bit of cash." "I ain't buying' owt." "Nicki doesn't want knock-off in the flat." "None of this stuff's nicked, honest." "I'm on probation." "I'm not allowed to nick stuff." "Car stereo?" "Unwanted gift." "Me mum give it us for getting me probation." " I haven't even got a car." " You all right for ashtrays?" " Eh?" " Ashtrays." "Here you are." "Fiver for both." "All right, four quid." "I'll take four quid." "Them's car ashtrays." "Out of a car door." "Nicked from a car." " Still got the cig butts in 'em." " What about...a nodding dog?" "Col. I 'aven't got a car!" "I've only got the air-bag." "I can't drive." "I haven't got a licence." "Oh, d'you want one?" "What d'you fancy?" "HGV, moped?" "No!" "Can I use yer loo?" "I'm on probation." "Bloody hell." "Tell you what, I'm getting a buzz off these mojos." " You're not still seeing that China, then?" " Nah." "I were never seeing her in the first place." "I'm with Nicki." "Yeah." "I thought so." "I saw China." "She's going out with Cartoon Head." "Yeah, I know." "Won't last, though." " She's on the rebound from me." " How can she be, when she was never with ya?" "'Cause that's the effect I have on women." " Got any mayonnaise?" " In the fridge." "I'm off." "Got stuff to spray on." " See ya." " See ya." " Lift, then pull, then lift again." " Yeah, I know." "You'll break it." "I haven't had me money's worth yet." "Only got it out of the skip last month." "Had cheese in it and everything." " Shit!" " (MOZ) What's wrong with you?" " There's a dead rat in your fridge." " Brilliant." " Is it?" " Dead rat's better than a live one, innit?" "It doesn't make much difference when it's by your sausages." "'Ave we got sausages?" " Do us a favour, fella, and lift it out." " Waz off." " (MIAOWS)" " Go on, get him." "Please tell me you've got some better gear for us." " Nobody around to bust." " (SIGHS)" " They're all gonna start scoring off Psycho Paul." " Nah." "And once they start, they'll keep scoring off 'im." " Why?" " 'Cause he'll stab 'em if they don't." "He's still there." " Who is?" " This daft lad 'ere." "Me stalker." "Craig something or other." "Weirdo." " Where?" " He's been stood outside there since yesterday." "It's gotta be illegal, that, surely?" "Must be." "Here." "You know, when you leave, you don't fancy..." "you know, moving 'im along, do ya?" "No problem." "I'll do it for you now." "No..." "You..." "Oi!" "Yeah." "You." "Piss off!" "Go on." "Cheers, man (!" ") Could've done that meself." "Ah, well." "He's gone now, anyway." "So what's all this, then? "This Is Your Life"?" "They're interviewing everyone about that murder." "Searching some places, trying to find that fella's missing hand." "'Ey." "I'm calling them the Handjob Murders." "Yeah." "Yeah, we all are." "'Ey, it was just luck I found out about it." "I volunteered to do this side of the street." " What?" "You're gonna interview us?" " Yeah." "Did you see owt, hear owt?" "No." "Right." "Stick the kettle on." "I'll power up the old machine." " Then I'll dust for fingerprints." " Really?" "Give over." "(GUNSHOTS)" "(MAN) AaaaghI" "You've never won one single game of this, have you?" "No." "No, I haven't." "I reckon I could even beat you if I played with me feet." "Ta." " Hiya." " All right?" " 'Ello, Nicki." "All right?" " Yeah." "You?" " I just mashed 'im." " Well done (!" ")" " Oh, er..." "Sangita were 'ere." " Oh, how is she?" "She's teaching dolphins to swim." "Something like that." " We up for a rematch or what?" " (GUNSHOT)" "Deffo." "Just give me ten minutes." "I'm off to shed a pound or two." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "Mmm." "You smell nice." "That'll be me pepper spray." "I've been thinking about you." "Do you, er... (WHISPERS)" "Aye, go on, then." " (NICKI) Mmm..." " Mm-hm." " Mmm..." " Mm-hm...mm-hm." " Oh!" " Mmm." "(NICKI) Mmm!" " Oh!" " (POOH PLOPS) Get out." "(BOTH SIGH)" " Anyone want a sausage butty?" " No, ta." "Aye, go on, then." " What are you staring at?" " Nowt." "Your..." "Your nose is...running." " 'Ey, we've been signed, us." " What, for the dole?" "No, the band." "We've been signed to a record company." "We've got an advance." "Five grand each." " What?" "You're kidding." " No." " Blew most of 'is on piercings, though." " Yeah, look." "Nips one and two... belly button and..." "..check out the old bollard." "Put it away, fella." "What do you think it is? "EuroTrash"?" "Looks like you got half a pound of roadkill down your undercrackers." "You've got some dark discharge there." "It looks sore, that." " How long before you can use it again?" " For sex?" "A day or so." " But I can wee at will." " Right." "What is it, then?" "Boy band?" "Is it hell." "We're called Silicone Valets." "But it's Valets spelt with a T." "You know, like parking valets." "Those people who park your car." "So it's Silicone..." "Valets." "Yeah." "We're kind of a mix of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, with a little bit of Chemical Brothers just squeezed in there." "So it's completely unoriginal, then?" "But we've got our own thing goin' on." "We've added our own twist." " What's it like?" " Bit like Kraftwerk." "Hey, I've got the demo." "D'you wanna...?" " I'll put it on." " Go on." "As long as it's not shite." "(PLODDING RETRO-ELECTRONICA)" "# I've walked all around this city But I can't find myself" "# I've walked all around this city..." " Who's the singer?" " That'll be me." "Sounds like, er... a sulky robot." "Is it a cover of a Lisa Stansfield song?" "Is it buggery!" "It's about alienation, y'know." "Urban decay." "You still living at your mother's?" "Down that mews?" "For now." "We're gonna have these films projected on us." "We've got this loop of me, 'im and Andy dressed like mannequins going down an escalator." "And what 'appens next?" "Nothing." "We just go back up to the top again." "I'd spend the rest of that cash sharpish, before they come and ask for it back." "'Ere." "I've got summat for you." "It's right up your mews." " We've had our breakfast, ta." " (LAUGHS)" "Bloody hell." "Whose is it?" "It's yours if you want it." "I were gonna chuck it out." " We could use it for an album cover." " It can't draw." "Too cool." " You just got the one?" " Yeah." "We'll take it." "Sure you don't want the, erm...the ring?" "Nah, I can't get it off." " You got some butter?" " I'm not buttering a dead man's finger!" " Shit." " What the bleedin' hell?" "!" " (MAN) Bye, MozI" " Bastard!" "Look at 'im legging it." " Who?" " Stalker." "I've got a stalker." "He's a nutter." "I know." "He's chucked a tin of dressed crab through your window." " He having a go at you?" " No, he's Tesco home delivery (!" ")" " (THUMPING FROM BELOW)" " Oh, shut up, you old biddy!" "D'you think I'm putting me own window through?" "Oi!" "You're the loser!" "I'm keeping that crab." "Ow!" "God, me favourite finger!" "Cheers, mate." "You up for a bit of broccoli?" " It's all right." "It's a vegetable, innit?" " You ever tried purple sprouting broccoli?" " I wouldn't want to." " See, I think you might like it." "Let me tell you about it." "It needs a compost that's compact..." "Come to think of it, yes, I've tried it." " Did you like it?" " No." " You might have had a bad batch." " No." "It were a good batch." "You know what, it were a great batch." "In fact, it was the winning batch at the World Purple Sprouting Broccoli Championships!" "I just fuckin' hated it!" "You see, it's nice with a bit of crab." "Jesus!" " What happened to your fingers?" " I'm allergic to veg." "You hear about them murders?" "People getting their hands cut off." " Yeah, well, I've got a name for them." " I know, I know!" "The Handjob Murders." "No." "The Wank Spanner Killings." " China." "Well good to see ya." " Hiya, Moz." " Are you all right?" " No." "It's Cartoon Head." "Well, it's really good that you come here." "What's happened to your hands now?" " A nutter threw some crab through me window." " And it pinched ya?" "No, it were a tinned one." "I'm havin' a really bad day meself." "'Ello." "'Ey." "Have, er... you ever tried, er...purple sprouting broccoli?" "Yeah." "It's all right." "I told you." "There's a big significance between the difference of the shrub..." "Soz, Derrick." "China sort of needs a bit of time to herself now." "Oh, aye?" "Shall we go down the Horses, then?" "No." "China sort of needs a bit of time to herself... with me." " I don't wanna spoil your evening." "I should go." " You're fine." "Oh, Jesus." "Derrick, look at this." "Oh, fella, you've gotta see this." "Oh, my God!" "What?" "Thank God he's gone." "Bloke just won't take a hint." "He's got no subtlety to him at all." "(MUSIC:" "SLIPSTREAM'S "EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING")" "# I wish I could feel" "# Everything..." "Thanks...for being friendly." "I always say you can't be too friendly." " God, what a mental day." " Oh, I know." "(SIGHS) Think I just...need to cry." "But I'm worried that if I start," "I won't be able to stop." "Go on." "Fill your boots." "(GUNSHOTS)" "(ANNE ROBINSON ON TV) Round fourI You're up to £1,000." "(SIGHS)" "God, I needed that." "Sorry." "It's all right." "Neighbours are used to it by now." "Cartoon Head's been acting really weird." "First off, he was spewing up all night." " How does that work with the mask?" " Don't ask." "It's like soup coming through a sprinkler system." "Today he's been saying somebody'd poisoned him." "I don't know what to do." " Dump him." " I still care about him." " Dump him." " I want him to be all right." "Dump him." "I hardly know anything about him." "I mean...does he have a job?" " What, you don't know?" " What?" " He's a hit man, i'nt he?" " Seriously?" "You think he works in a bank with a face like that?" "Yeah (!" ")" "He'll take out one man for a grand." "Two men for a grand and a half." "Family rates on request." "God, I never knew." "Hit man..." "I wonder if that's why he finds it difficult to commit." "I used to find it difficult to commit, but I realised that committing to someone doesn't mean that you're stuck with them." "He seems so sad." "There's been so much unhappiness and...tragedy in his life." "Yeah." "He has caused most of it himself, mind." "You're right." "I shouldn't go back to 'is tonight." "No, you shouldn't." "Don't give 'im the satisfaction." "I just feel so vulnerable." "I know you do." "'Ave a biftah." "No, you're all right." "You keep it." "I'll roll us another fat one." "(TINKLY MOBILE RINGTONE)" " It's Cartoon Head." " It's probably best you don't answer it." " I should do." " You shouldn't." " I'd better." " I wouldn't." "Dump 'im." "Hello." "What do you want?" "No, I..." "I'm sorry." "(SHE GIGGLES)" "Thanks, Moz." " You're a mate." " Mm." "Ten minutes of Frogger... ..and then I'll have a jodrell." " It's not that easy." " (MAN) Dump 'im." " But I still care about him." " Dump 'im." " I want him to be OK." " Dump 'imI" "Look, I gotta go." "(CHIRPY VIDEO GAME THEME)" "Hey up, it's Thoroughly Mullered Millie." "You're back early."

Q: Syntax error deleting from database using session variable I am trying to delete all from a data which contains the users session data in it, however it is telling me I have a syntax error. $sql = "DELETE * FROM character_tbl WHERE character_player= '".$_SESSION["user"]."' "; The error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '$sql = "DELETE * FROM character_tbl WHERE character_player = '".$_SESSION["user"' A: Query should be like this, no need to add * : "DELETE FROM character_tbl WHERE character_player= '".$_SESSION["user"]."'

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Yep! “Just cause somebody wears a hoodie doesn’t mean they are a criminal”..Yeah OK, let’s see Al Sharpton work the night shift at a 7-11 and some homies walk in wearing a hoodie. Let’s see how long he can go before he pisses his pants. I use to do just that in the 1980s, work the night shift at a 7-11 in Freeport New York which is an almost all black neighborhood on the North side. I can’t even count how many times we got ripped of when the “hoodies” walked in. Blatant shoplifting then they would slowly walk out out of arrogance, like a dare, or jumping over the counter to rifle the cash register or showing me their “piece” or a knife. We had an ax handle as if that would do anything, I would just let them take what they wanted then call the cops. I was freakin’ nuts back then, I don’t know why I worked there. And finally when I got some brains and decided to quit the owner was practically on his knees begging me to stay because nobody else was stupid enough to take that job. 4 posted on 05/20/2013 12:10:07 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose") Yeah see that’s the thing, here in New York it’s against the law to defend yourself. You have to get shot and killed otherwise it’s unfair to the hoodie. If I shot him then he couldn’t be immediately paroled to kill again. If this was a sane world they would make it mandatory that all store owners be armed! But noooo, they have to get killed because the rights of the maggot comes first. 11 posted on 05/20/2013 12:26:36 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose") “Anyone who recognizes the suspects is asked to contact the Hooksett Police Department.” I am not positive, but I think the one in the hoodie is Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964), a retired American astronaut. Kelly is known to be a crazy gun fiend and is known to be willing to break the law to obtain scary looking black guns. Use Caution: This subject has also been known to use an unleashed pitbull, on public beaches and around small children and women, to brutally kill a defenseless baby seal. 12 posted on 05/20/2013 12:29:03 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.) On 05/15/2013 at approximately 9:23am Officer Syrek responded to Riley’s Sport Shop in Hooksett for a reported Theft of a Firearm. Officer Syrek was told by a store employee that on 05/14/2013 at approximately 5:00pm two black males and one black female entered Riley’s Sport Shop on Hooksett Rd. While in the store the female is seen reaching around one of the cabinets and removing a firearm. A store employee sees the male suspect with the firearm and takes it back. As the employee walks away the female is seen on camera reaching around the case removing a knife and a firearm. The female is then seen walking to the back of the store where she cuts the security tag off the firearm and then leaves the store with the firearm. The firearm that was taken was a 357 Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun. The Hooksett Police is being assisted by the ATF and they are looking for the public’s help in identifying the three suspects in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hooksett Police Department at (603) 624-1560. In this store there are typically 6 or 8 people working the counters, and the place is usually packed thanks to our President/gun salseman-in-chief. From what I heard in the store this weekend one of the guys caused a distraction while the woman made the grab. Stuff happens. LOL! Awesome! Yeah I moved out last year, best thing I ever did. I grew up there but I just couldn’t take it anymore. I grew up there, then lived out in Long Island in the ‘80s for a while then moved back in ‘94 until last year when I couldn’t take Bloomberg anymore and moved out for good. When he issued his decree demanding landlords provide the city with all the tenants who smoke, I said that’s it, I’m outta here and I don’t even smoke. That is Nazi sh*t “Send us ze list with all ze Juden in your apartments!” It’s a city run under despotism now..Liberals think tyranny can’t happen in the US? They don’t need a 2nd amendment? Maybe they should move to NYC and tell me that again. He dictates every single aspect of your life. The food and smoking part is just the tip of the iceberg, the media doesn’t report half of what he does. It’s like North Korea, it really is, but without the starvation and you can leave, but you have to pay if you want to leave with the 10 billion tolls they got. Everything else, the despot dictates everything...What you can own, if you can run a business (which he can take away from you at any time) what you do in your spare time, and what you do in the privacy of your own home. Every week around monday he bans something. Last week I think it was electric scooters. 24 posted on 05/20/2013 1:05:58 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose") Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. 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Last visited Community Reputation About Code Sage Are you guys really that slow? If so I do feel bad for you. If that is the "best" GUI you can make without running the project than I guess your right. What do you win? Nothing, it was for fun... You just did that FOR FUN. People act like when they are coding a GUI they don't constantly keep checking to see if the positioning is correct for the text, buttons, sprites etc. The whole point it to create a "Good" looking GUI without debugging your code than simply post a picture. I don't know why that is so hard for you ignorant people to understand. Someone please just delete this thread, nothing but complete idiots on here. Because a "challenge" should be easy ok... I don't think it is good practice to shoot a basketball with your eyes closed, but it would be a fun competition among friends to see who could make the most while doing it. And sorry that "for fun" isn't incentive enough for you. If you don't want to do than challenge than don't, but there is not reason to hate on it, otherwise your just as ignorant as you believe I am. This reveals you are not a developer, because a developer knows no program or asset is ever really truly done. If you're not a developer, you're from sales so you're gonna get downvoted to oblivion. The only time you may run the project is when you believe you will be satisfied with the results.* Sorry forgot I was addressing literal minded people. Well when the State of the game changes it has to be done like so: (Assume we are going from the MainMenuState to the GameState by clicking the play button) case PLAY_GAME: State gameState = new GameState(game); State.setState(gameState); break; When the GameState is being constructed it calls its supers constructor first, which looks like this: public State(final Game game) { if (currentState != null) { currentState.setInitialized(false); currentState = null; } game.getComponentHandler().getComponents().clear(); } So before anything is really constructed inside of GameState the currentState is uninitialized and than set to null. This should effectively stop the mouseMoved() and mousePressed() from doing anything while GameState is adding/removing its components to the collection. At least I hope it is working like this. If you have some free time and feel like doing something, I challenge you to code a GUI without ever debugging or running the project. The only time you may run the project is once you believe it is done, but once it is run you may not go back and edit the code anymore. Also you can't use any extra libraries or tools to create the GUI other than what is included in Java. Once you are done feel free to post a screenshot to show everyone what it looks like. - Good Luck to those brave enough to give it a go ;) I believe I have figured it out. Well at least for the past 100+ times I have opened my game it has not occurred. Let me brake down the basics of what I was doing first. Inside my Game class is where I initialize all my handlers, so for instance my ComponentHandler. After my handlers are initialized I initialize the starting State of the game, in this case the MainMenuState. OK, so inside of the ComponentHandler constructor is where I add my MouseListener and MouseMotionListener to game, therefore the mouseMoved() method starts getting called before the State of the game is initialized. Well the problem doesn't exactly have to do with the order of my initializations, but it did play an important factor. This is what my mouseMoved() method looked like before the fix: public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) { int x = e.getX(); int y = e.getY(); int componentId = -1; for (Component c : components) { if (c == null || c.isDisabled()) continue; if (c.contains(x, y)) { componentId = c.getId(); if (!c.getHovered()) c.setHovered(true); } else c.setHovered(false); } if (componentId != -1) { switch(componentId) { // TODO: HANDLE THINGS } } } So as you can see that it will start to loop through all the components in order to find the componentId of whatever the x, y coordinates of the mouse are contained within. Ok so now that the ComponentHandler is initialized, its time to initialized my MainMenuState. Well inside my MainMenuState is where the Interface is built for the main menu. This includes adding Components (Buttons) to the interface. Every Button() extends the Component class and upon creation is automatically added to the List of components inside ComponentHandler. So this is where the exception is thrown, while I am already iterating through the list of components inside ComponentHandler, I am also trying to add new buttons to that list through the creation of the main menu interface. Since you can't add or remove items to a list while iterating through it a ConcurrentModificationException was thrown. How I decided to fix this problem is by stopping the mouseMoved() from iterating through the List without the State of the game first being initialized like so: public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) { int x = e.getX(); int y = e.getY(); int componentId = -1; if (State.currentState == null || !State.currentState.isInitialized()) // Fix return; for (Component c : components) { if (c == null || c.isDisabled()) continue; if (c.contains(x, y)) { componentId = c.getId(); if (!c.getHovered()) c.setHovered(true); } else c.setHovered(false); } if (componentId != -1) { switch(componentId) { // TODO: HANDLE THINGS } } } Inside the current States class I just be sure to set the initialized boolean to true at the end of the constructor. Also at the beginning of every States initialization I clear the list of components inside ComponentHandler. And just for the record I did the same thing with the mousePressed() to avoid any issues with that. I am not 100% sure if this was the cause, however it seems to be fixed for now without the use of any CopyOnWriteArrayLists If you have any questions, comments or concerns let me know. I already tried this method of doing the iteration and it sadly did not fix the exception. Only time it gets fixed for me is when I CopyOnWriteArrayList :/ And as for your other method I am using custom Buttons. They are not Swing or AWT. I have been trying to recreate it for a while and I simplified it down as far as possible, but now the exception is never thrown... Honestly as I keep adding more and more trying to throw the exception I will have figured out the problem by the time it happens. I'll make a post if I figure it out, but I don't think i'll post any code unless you wanna take a look at my full source. This is a terrible exception name. Not only can you modify something in two different threads, but just iterating over the collection and trying to change something can cause this. It may not have anything to do with multiple threads. So is my fix sufficient? Or is the whole thing a mistake in the first place.. If it was me I would undo the fix and see if I could find the problem. Without seeing the code I can't tell you if this has fixed the problem or just hidden it. I could send you my code if you wouldn't mind looking over it for me. Just promise I won't see it in the coding horrors section later haha. This is a terrible exception name. Not only can you modify something in two different threads, but just iterating over the collection and trying to change something can cause this. It may not have anything to do with multiple threads. So is my fix sufficient? Or is the whole thing a mistake in the first place.. Components get added and removed whenever there is state change. At initialization of every state I clear the list and than it gets filled with whatever components are necessary for that state of the game. For the time being I ended up making the list CopyOnWriteArrayList and it has been working perfectly fine. It may not be a legit fix but, if it works it works I guess haha. If someone has a better solution though I am more than happy to hear it. I am attempting to create a ComponentHandler, which extends MouseAdapter, that essentially handles all the buttons in my game. Every time a new Component is created it is put in to an ArrayList inside ComponentHandler. This ArrayList is iterated through inside mouseMoved() and mousePressed() in order to identify the component and handle what happens to it when it is clicked/hovered over. Randomly when I start up my game I get a ConcurrentModificationException inside mouseMoved(). Sometimes it can be the first time starting it other times it could be the 50th. I can't for the life of me figure out the problem, so I am considering just using a CopyOnWriteArrayList and hoping that solves the issue. Do you think that would be the optimal fix for this? Or am I completely derping out and missing something totally obvious? I also have methods in ComponentHandler that getComponent, addComponent, removeComponent, getComponentList. Currently I am only using getComponent inside and outside of ComponentHandler. If you need to know anything just let me know and I will be glad to tell you. Thanks for your time and help. The reason this seems like the right solution is because that's how Java handles mouse/keyboard input for a Swing or JavaFX GUI code. If you are using a JPanel for each player then this is an option. If you were coding in DirectX or OpenGL, there would only ever be one mouse. You don't have the concept of a mouse listener. Whenever I see someone ask "What's the best way to [insert thing here]" alarm bells go off. How is your game structured? Are you using GUI components and callbacks, or are you doing a game loop with active rendering? You are correct I guess I don't have a proper concept on what a mouse listener really easy. But I have come up with something that I want to try an do and I would love your opinion on it. I am currently not using GUI components and I am using a game loop and active rendering. Basically I am going to have one class called ComponentHandler and it's job is to handle the input of all GUI Components. package com.sage.rpg.gui; import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter; import java.awt.event.MouseEvent; import java.util.List; import com.sage.rpg.Game; public class ComponentHandler extends MouseAdapter { public static List<Component> components; public ComponentHandler(final Game game) { game.addMouseListener(this); game.addMouseMotionListener(this); } public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) { int x = e.getX(); int y = e.getY(); int componentId = -1; for (Component c : components) { if (c.contains(x, y)) componentId = c.getId(); } if (componentId != -1) { switch(componentId) { case 0: // handle input break; } } } public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { int x = e.getX(); int y = e.getY(); int componentId = -1; for (Component c : components) { if (c.contains(x, y)) componentId = c.getId(); } if (componentId != -1) { switch(componentId) { case 0: // handle input break; } } } } Are you talking about a multiplayer game ? About a server side implementation ? You have always two ways of handling events, either pushing (send event to listener) or pulling (ask if a new event occurs or a certain state changed). The listener concept (or a BUS system) are pushing systems. If you have very large amount of potentially listeners, which don't need to listen to all events all the time, it could be more effeciently to use a pulling system (only the component which needs the data gets it). A possible setup would be // pushing system interface InputListener { void newEvent(...); } class InputManager { void addListener( InputListener); void removeListener(InputListener); } // pulling system class InputManager { MouseCoord getCurrentMousePosition(); } For input handling both systems seems valid and using a listener system in java isn't unheart of. Therefor I can't see a reason to not using a listener based input handler, which would only use one class and one interface, thougth multiple listener instances. But you should not have a lot input listener at all, even in a multiplayer game (where you would have network listeners or similar interfaces). I guess what I am asking is... If I were ever going to display more than one interface on the players screen at one time. I would have to add a new MouseListener to handle every interface being displayed.That is if I wanted to have the code for each interface in its own class. Or I could handle every button of every interface in one class and only add one MouseListener. So what would be the best way to keep the code for each interface separated and not have to deal with multiple MouseListeners. I hope that makes sense, it's sort of hard for me to explain. I have been looking at a lot of peoples code lately. Seeing how they handle their player input and things of the sort. One thing that I keep coming across and dislike is when people use one or two classes to handle all the input for the game. Doesn't it seem better if the input for the player is handled in the Player class? And if you have several different interfaces, I wouldn't want to handle all of the mouse input in one single class for every other interface. It just makes more sense, to me anyway, if the input is handled in it's own separate "interface" class or something of the sort. However, something that starts to become an issue with this approach, is that for every interface that is displayed and for every player on the screen there has to be another KeyListener or MouseMotionListener added to the game. Does this become inefficient? Is this the reason people use one or two classes to handle all the keyboard and mouse input? I am just curious as to what would be the "best" way of doing it. I know that prettier isn't always better, but it is just something that has been bothering me for quite a while. Thanks for anyone who could shed some light on the subject.

Back in April, I announced plans for the future of School of Haskell and FP Haskell Center. We're now half a year later, and it's time to start moving ahead with those plans. The summary is: FP Haskell Center will be retired by the end of the year, please migrate your projects now. School of Haskell will be transitioned to its own domain name, schoolofhaskell.com, with hopefully no interruption in service. Migrating projects from FP Haskell Center In order to migrate your projects, please: Open your project on fpcomplete.com Select the Git menu from the top bar To get a tarball with all of your sources, choose "Source dist" To retain your full project history, push to an external Git repository (such as on Github or Bitbucket) As readers of this blog are likely familiar already, FP Complete and the Commercial Haskell group have been putting a lot of effort into the Stack build tool for easily and reliably building Haskell code. We recommend migrating your project to Stack. School of Haskell We have three milestones along the path to our new, open sourced School of Haskell: Release ide-backend - the core engine powering School of Haskell - as open source. We completed this process in March, and ide-backend has continued as a successful open source project since then. Create a School of Haskell API service, allowing arbitrary websites to "activate" Haskell code on their sites to create interactive snippets for their users. The open source schoolofhaskell repository is mostly feature-complete, and we are currently making refinements before launching the service. Extract the School of Haskell HTML display and edit code to its own project and host on schoolofhaskell.com. At that point, users will be able to view and edit their content on schoolofhaskell.com instead. Once all three steps are complete, we will begin redirecting users from fpcomplete.com to schoolofhaskell.com. Timeline We expect the School of Haskell changes to be completed by the end of October. We will be sharing more information about this process as it unfolds, and once the new deployment is available, will welcome contributions to improve the School of Haskell. We also look forward to seeing how others are able to take advantage of the new service API to extend their own websites. For FP Haskell Center: we will be shutting down the service completely at the end of 2015. We will soon deploy changes to provide a warning when accessing FP Haskell Center about the impending shutdown. Once the service is shut down, your data will be inaccessible. Please ensure that you have backed up any data and code you wish to retain. Do you like this blog post and need help with DevOps, Rust or functional programming? Contact us. Share this

Political Operatives Pose as Journalists, Human Rights Groups Translations of this item: Polish The same activists and organizations were silent when the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces arrested al-Qiq and harassed his family. Amnesty International neglected to mention that al-Qiq has also been targeted by PA security forces and that, in addition to his work as a newsman, he is also affiliated with Hamas. This detail, according to Amnesty, is evidently not significant. When arrested, such political operatives posing as journalists -- and so-called human rights groups, and the mainstream media in the West -- get to scream about Israel assaulting freedom of the media. This dirty little game has been played by Palestinian and Western journalists and highly politicized, biased human rights groups for years. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), which is headed by Nasser Abu Baker, did not come out in support of journalist, Sami al-Sai when he was arrested (and tortured) for 20 days in the PA's notorious Jericho Central Prison. Nor did Amnesty or most human rights organizations come out in defense of al-Sai. Instead of calling on the PA leadership to release their detained colleague, Abu Baker and the PJS heads issued a statement in which they justified his arrest and defended the PA against charges of torturing him. Nasser Abu Baker himself is affiliated with the PA's ruling Fatah faction. Recently, the AFP correspondent even ran (and lost) in the election for Fatah's Revolutionary Council. While AFP has been reporting about the detention by Israel of al-Qiq, it has conspicuously failed to report about the plight of al-Sai and his serious charges of torture in PA prison. So a journalist arrested by the PA is not worth a story in an international media outlet, while anyone arrested by Israel gets wide coverage. Now it is official: double standards, racism, and political activism are an integral part of the modern media. Two Palestinian journalists are arrested -- one by Israel and the other by the Palestinian Authority (PA). The name of the one arrested by Israel is Muhammad al-Qiq. The name of the one arrested by the PA security forces is Sami al-Sai. Although he is registered as a journalist, al-Qiq was arrested for security-related offenses completely unrelated to his profession. Israel did not arrest him because of his reporting or his writing, but because of his activities on behalf of Hamas. As a student at Bir Zeit University in 2006, al-Qiq was already known to be affiliated with Hamas. He was a member of the Islamic Bloc -- a student list belonging to Hamas. Al-Qiq's affiliation with Hamas even got him into trouble with the Palestinian Authority; its forces arrested and interrogated him several times in the past few years. The last time his family received a visit from PA security officers was in 2014. Then, officers in plainclothes seized al-Qiq's laptop and personal documents. Now, al-Qiq is in Israeli detention, where he has gone on hunger strike in protest against his arrest. Guess who is campaigning on his behalf and demanding that Israel immediately and unconditionally release him from detention? The same PA that repeatedly arrested and harassed al-Qiq over the past few years. In addition, human rights organizations and activists have endorsed the case and are now using it to attack Israel. These are the same activists and organizations that were silent when the PA security forces arrested al-Qiq and harassed his family. One of these organizations is Amnesty International, which issued a statement last week calling on Israel to release the detained "journalist." Amnesty neglected to mention that al-Qiq has also been targeted by the PA security forces and that, in addition to his work as a newsman, he is also affiliated with Hamas. This detail, according to Amnesty, is evidently not significant. The truth is that most, if not all, Palestinian journalists arrested by Israel are targeted not because of their work in the field of journalism, but because of their activities on behalf of various Palestinian groups, including Hamas. It is an open secret that many Palestinian "journalists" are in fact political activists who are openly affiliated with one terrorist group or another. When arrested, such political operatives posing as journalists -- and so-called human rights groups, and the mainstream media in the West -- get to scream about Israel assaulting freedom of the media. This dirty little game has been played by Palestinian and Western journalists and highly politicized, biased human rights groups for years. Yet, why discuss it when you can leverage it against Israel? Here is another missing fact related to the detention of the Hamas activist-turned journalist: The Fatah-controlled Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), which is based in Ramallah, has also joined the campaign to demand the release of al-Qiq from Israeli detention. Why is this detail important? Because the PJS, which is headed by Nasser Abu Baker (also spelled Abu Bakr), who also serves as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP), did not come out in support of the other journalist, Sami al-Sai, when he was arrested (and tortured) for 20 days in the PA's notorious Jericho Central Prison. Nor did Amnesty or most human rights organizations come out in defense of al-Sai when he was being held by the PA security forces. Sami al-Sai, who works as a correspondent for a private television station in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, was arrested for "fomenting sectarian strife" through Facebook. This is a popular Palestinian Authority charge, one that is used to justify the arrest of anyone who criticizes PA leaders or who takes issue with the policies of Mahmoud Abbas. The PJS at first refused to take up the case of al-Sai. The PJS rarely defends journalists who are critical of the PA. That is because the head of the PJS, Abu Baker himself, is affiliated with the PA's ruling Fatah faction. Recently, the AFP correspondent even ran (and lost) in the election for Fatah's Revolutionary Council. Facing criticism, Abu Baker and some of the heads of the PJS agreed to visit al-Sai in his prison cell in Jericho. But instead of calling on the Palestinian Authority leadership to release their detained colleague, Abu Baker and the PJS heads issued a statement in which they justified his arrest and defended the PA against charges of torturing him. While AFP has been reporting about the detention by Israel of al-Qiq and other Palestinian "journalists," it has conspicuously failed to report about the plight of al-Sai and his serious charges of torture in PA prison. So a journalist arrested by the Palestinian Authority is not worth a story in an international media outlet, while anyone arrested by Israel gets wide coverage. Needless to say, Abu Baker, who covers Palestinian affairs for AFP, did not bother to write a story about his visit to the Jericho prison and the meeting with al-Sai. As chairman of a Fatah-controlled body, Abu Baker is not going to report to AFP anything that would reflect negatively on the PA leadership. Even more bizarre is that an AFP correspondent would be allowed to run for political office and continue with his work as if nothing happened. Would Le Monde allow its diplomatic correspondent to cover the French elections if he was also running for office? Apparently, the conflict of interest does not bother Abu Baker's superiors at AFP. The case of the two journalists -- Muhammad al-Qiq and Sami al-Sai -- provides further evidence of the hypocrisy, double standards, bias and racism that the Palestinian and Western media continue to demonstrate concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any story that could negatively affect the Palestinian Authority or Hamas is not "fit for print." Human rights groups and the media clearly do not care if a Palestinian is detained and tortured by Palestinians. A story becomes news when it is possible to lay blame on Israel. Western (and some Israeli) journalists covering Palestinian issues justify their double standard by arguing that if they criticized the PA or any of its senior figures, they would be barred from Ramallah or shouted at and denied access to sources. Here is the truth: prejudice works and intimidation works. Journalists and human rights groups would rather distort and practice self-censorship than report accurately about Israel or anger the Palestinian Authority leadership. In Israel, however, journalists write negative things about the Israeli government and army and police from sunrise to sundown without fearing anything. Now it is official: double standards, racism, and political activism are an integral part of the modern media. Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East. © 2020 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. 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UPDATE: the 3rd gift came in. It's wall art and it's absolutely perfect! It came at a time when I needed confirmation about things I'm doing in my life. My lil' studio is full of music/abstract art decor. I can't wait til this weekend to hang it up! THANK YOU AGAIN, Santa!!! Super excited. THANK YOU, SECRET SUPER AWESOME SANTA! I received 2 of my gifts today. Apparently there's one more of all this goodness headed my way?!?! The message left for me was, "one I hope is yummy and interesting, one I hope is a reminder of your love for music for the next 300 + days, and one I hope is useful as well as fun!" Shoot, I'm overspilling with joy and sugar rushing at the moment! What else is next! VINYL!!!! I got vinyl coasters! You have no idea how sick these are to me!! I mean I literally have a wall of vinyl. Even my co-workers said the coasters are definitely me. They're so awesome! Booooooy, don't get me started on these cookies, son! They took REAL bacon bits put them on top of an oreo cookie, then drenched the heck out of it with chocolate, AND sprinkled it with pig sprinkles. One of my co-workers was buggin' out asking me, "are you going to share?" "Girl, NO! This is bacon. End of story." I'm thinkin... dang, what else is about to come?! something useful, as well as fun... I can't wait to find out. THANK YOU Santa! From the bottom of my pig eating belly! haha. OH!!!! I forgot to mention the bubble wrap!! The gift that keeps on giving! The bacon cookies were wrapped in bubble wrap. Talk about heaven. I'm over here eating my cookies popping my bubble wrap without a care in the world, right now!

LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! HIGHLIGHTS: Heliot Ramos drove in 3 runs on 2 hits, walk; Alexander Canario hit his 5th HR in 7 games; Victor Bericoto had four hits. Sacramento won at El Paso Chihuahuas (Padres), 5-4 Conner Menez hiccuped to open his start in El Paso, allowing four runs on two, two-run HRs, in the first inning. He recovered to throw 4 scoreless innings after that, putting Sacramento in position to snatch a close comeback win. It was the most runs Menez had allowed since April 30 in Bowie, MD with the Flying Squirrels. And the game marked the fewest Ks he’s had in a game in over a month. Still, back to back starts in Las Vegas and El Paso with just 5 runs allowed counts as solid work in the PCL and Menez is still on track to be a surprise big leaguer sometime in the not too distant future. Zach Green’s second hit of the day — and 13th double of the year — started the RiverCats winning rally. Francisco Pena would follow with a double of his own bringing Green in with what was ultimately the winning run. That hit extended Pena’s hit streak to 7 games. Rough night for Chris Shaw who wore sombrero home (though, in truth, El Paso’s a fashionable place to do that!) Richmond beat Altoona Curve (Pirates), 6-2 losing their series, 1-2 Richmond avoided a sweep at home, busting loose for six unanswered runs in the 5th and 6th innings to take the series finale. Minor league Rule 5 pick Peter Maris made an immediate contribution in his first game with Richmond, coming up with the bases loaded and singling in the first run of the night. Welcome to the team, Peter Maris In his first at-bat with the Flying Squirrels, he gets us on the board pic.twitter.com/2MSr1DZIRH — Richmond Flying Squirrels (@GoSquirrels) June 27, 2019 And then Johneshwy Fargas came up with the big hit, clearing the bases with his 4th triple of the year, one of two hits for Fargas in the game. The Squirrels also got two hits from Jalen Miller — his first multi-hit game since back on June 11. Miller’s first hit was a soft line drive, but he made solid contact with the second one. The young 2b needs to get things turned around — he was starting to flirt with the Mendoza line after this rough month! After a solid 5 innings from Brandon Beachy, Richmond’s bullpen shut things down tight with 4 excellent innings of relief. Collectively Frank Rubio, Sam Moll, Caleb Simpson and recent re-addition Dillon MacNamara allowed just 4 baserunners over the final 4 frames. San Jose beat Modesto Nuts (Mariners), 6-5 in 10 inn winning their series, 2-1 Heliot Ramos with a two-run single in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game 5-5. Just stole second base. @SJGiants pic.twitter.com/vfQv7688WC — Ali Thanawalla (@Ali_Thanawalla) June 26, 2019 Heliot Ramos followed up his big three-hit night on Tuesday, by reaching base three more times Wednesday afternoon on two singles and a walk. Ramos also contributed greatly to the back and forth battle, twice helping bring San Jose back from behind. In one of the game’s more dramatic at bats, Ramos battled back from a 1-2 count, ultimately lining the 8th pitch of the at bat into left field for a game-tying two-run single. Here, let’s watch it again from another angle! Runners on 2nd and 3rd, @HeliotRamos battles back from 1-2 to load the count, then barrels a Kyle Wilcox fastball to right field. Just like last night, Ramos hit balls solidly to right, center, and left. Currently batting .289 with a 9 ’s and a .906 OPS for the @SFGiants pic.twitter.com/a6YHW2Zpqm — Jacob Zweiback (@TheReelJZ) June 27, 2019 The 19 year old completed his stat sheet with his third SB of the year. In extras, Brandon Van Horn provided the walk off with his third hit of the day. The slick fielding SS has enjoyed his return to the Cal League so far: Brandon Van Horn's two games since returning from Richmond: - 2-for-4 last night with a go-ahead home run & 4 RBI's. - 3-for-4 today with the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the 10th. Reached base in his final five plate appearances (three singles + two walks). — Joe Ritzo (@JoeRitzo) June 26, 2019 Heath Quinn moved up from his rehab stint in Arizona to join the Giants, walking twice in five plate appearances. One presumes he’ll be on his way back to Richmond ere long. Jake Wong has definitely felt a little sting from the move up from the Sally to the Cal league. He’s surrendered 3 or 4 runs in 5 of his 7 starts with San Jose, after allowing 1 or 0 runs in 5 of his 8 Sally starts. Overall, he’s allowed 18 ER in 32.1 IP with San Jose, and he’s seen just slight backwards steps in both his K (22% to 19%) and BB (7% to 10%) rates. Nothing disastrous, but a definite development hump. In the end, San Jose got a much needed series win and has now won three out of four after losing the first three games of the 2nd half. They open this half with 20 consecutive games against their Northern Division competition, so this could be a make or break three-week section of their season. Augusta beat Asheville Tourists (Rockies), 6-1 sweeping their series, 3-0 Blake Rivera wasn’t necessarily pitch efficient, but he was once again very hard to hit. Rivera allowed just a solo HR over 4.1 innings before being removed once he tipped over the 80 pitch mark. In that time he struck out nearly a third of his 19 batters faced, giving him 80 for the season. That ties him with teammate Seth Corry for 10th in the Sally this year, 10 behind the league leader. Rivera and Co.’s good work made it easy for the offense to roll the team to a sweep over Asheville. Ismael Munguia and Frankie Tostado both contributed three hits to the cause. Diego Rincones doubled in two runs. And Jacob Gonzalez celebrated his 21st birthday with a double and a Sac Fly. Happy Birthday Jacob! Time to celebrate with a sweep at home tonight! Who's coming to watch the Jackets?! pic.twitter.com/82BeFvHWQs — Augusta GreenJackets (@GreenJackets) June 26, 2019 Salem-Keizer beat Hillsboro Hops (Diamondbacks), 5-3 Closer Israel Cruz — who the Giants acquired from Texas in the Matt Moore deal — has been on fire since the Volcanoes’ season started. He’s allowed just two hits and two walks in the NWL, while strike out 10 over 6.2 IP. He has surrendered two runs, but both were unearned. In his last two outings he hasn’t allowed a single baserunner and has struck out 5 of the 6 batters he’s faced. The Volcanoes offense got back on the board with 9 runs. They got two-hit nights from three players (Franklin Labour, Sean Roby, and Tyler Flores) while newcomer Harrison Freed — this year’s 13th round pick out of Butler — homered in his first game with the team. AZL Giants Orange beat AZL Athletics Green, 3-2 AZL Giants Black lost to AZL Indians Blue, 7-3 Alexander Canario led off his second game in a row (and third overall) with a HR — his 5th of the season in just seven games played. That has him tied for the league lead, but rumors are surfacing that he may not be around much longer to hang on to the leaderboard. #SFGiants center field Alexander Canario, 19, hit his fifth home run in his seventh AZL game today. Was told earlier today he’ll be headed to Salem-Keizer in the near future. — Kerry Crowley (@KO_Crowley) June 27, 2019 Make that “near future” REAL NEAR, PLEASE! Cuban refugee Jairo Pomares, who the Giants signed for $975,000 last July 2nd got his first mark in the HR column with a solo shot for his only hit. Otherwise, it was a pretty quiet day for the Arizona bats. Javeyan Williams, the Giants 22nd round pick out of Southern University, showed off his speed. Williams stole his 3rd and 4th bags of the year, putting him in position to score the winning run for Team Orange on a Wild Pitch. Nineteen year old RHP Wilkelma Castillo offered up an enticing start, however, striking out 7 over 4 IP while allowing just 1 run. In two games (7.1 IP) Castillo has struck out 11 and walked just 2. Team Black’s game saw the organizational debut of Keyvius Sampson, a former top prospect of the Padres who the Giants signed as a minor league free agent this winter. DSL Giants lost to DSL Colorado, 10-8 Seventeen year old Venezuelan Victor Bericoto extended his hit streak to nine games with a four hit day. The 1b/LF has knocked out six hits with two walks in his last two games alone. His .515 OBP now leads the DSL, while his 1.075 OPS comes in third in the sprawling league. Meanwhile, Ruben Gomez had two hits including his 2nd HR of the year, walked twice, and threw a runner out at the plate for good measure. Luis Matos had just one hit, but it was his 7th double of the season, pushing the 17 year old’s SLG up to .649. Speedy Jose Peralta had two hits in the game — both triples. Peralta has five extra base hits among his 25 hits on the year and all five have been triples. Sadly, this Giants team is really looking for somebody to step up on the pitching side to take advantage of all this offense. The staff ERA of 5.58 is fourth worst in the 45-team league... or I suppose, the 41st best. Today’s Scheduled Starters: Sacramento (Sam Coonrod) @ El Paso (Robert Stock) Richmond (Brandon Lawson) vs. Hartford (Matt Dennis) San Jose (Jose Marte) vs. Stockton (TBD) Augusta (Seth Corry) vs. Lexington (TBD) Salem-Keizer (Jesus Ozoria) vs. Hillsboro (Adrian Del Moral) AZL Giants Orange (Conner Nurse) @ AZL Angels (TBD) AZL Brewers Gold (TBD) @ AZL Giants Black (Jasier Herrera) DSL Giants (Luis Castillo) vs. DSL Royals2 (TBD) Sacramento is going with an Opener strategy for the second time in this series. Sam Coonrod will take the first inning with Andrew Suarez scheduled to follow. In San Jose, Jose Marte looks to recover a rough start, while Seth Corry can break his strikeout tie with teammate Blake Rivera. Have a great Thursday, everybody. Here, I don’t want to stint on the good stuff — have another Heliot hit on the way out:

I was running fast, through the trees, being scratched by the bushes, my feet sore and hurting, but I couldn't stop. I could hear him behind me, getting closer and closer. And my heart was pounding so hard I could feel it in the back of my throat. I stumbled with a hidden root and I fell to the floor with a muffled cry and a second later, he was on top of me, his broad body pinning me to the ground, one hand pushing my head down, showing me his power over me. He didn't waste one more second, and he flipped me, straddled me and his hands trashed my top, ripping it into rags, and using it to tie my hands tight, in front of me, totally ignoring my screams, my struggles and my kicks. He got up, threw me over his shoulder and carried me through the woods, going deeper in, away from any trail or any possible interference. I kept screaming, and squirming, until his hand landed hard over my ass cheeks, followed by the threat. "Cut it off, or you'll regret it!" his voice was harsh and muffled by the black balaclava he was wearing. I went silent and still, deciding I should regain strength for the right moment, when I would be able to escape. He reached a clearing in the woods and threw me hard to the floor, expelling all the air from my lungs. A second later he was securing my tied hands to a rope already attached to a tree trunk, stretched over my head. When I realized he had the place prepared, I saw all possibilities of escaping being killed right there and then, and desperation made me resume my struggle against him. His hard hand crossed my face, violently, leaving me sobbing and crying, while he finished tying my ankles, wide opened, to the other ropes he had displayed. Then he grabbed a scary knife from the floor and started to cut off my shorts and panties. He grabbed the remains of my panties, and with his eyes locked in mine, he took them slowly to his nose, inhaling deep the sweet perfume of my arousal. He gave me an evilly grin as he leaned forward and pushed the panties in my mouth, as deep as he could, to prevent me from spitting them out. With the knife he cut a last piece of clothes, my bra, leaving me there, naked, vulnerable and exposed to him. He slipped backwards a bit, staying over my hips, and then his hands moved to this belt, and he slowly unbuckled it and slid it out of his jeans. My eyes followed every move he made, while my heart raced frantically in my chest and fear and expectation installed themselves in me. He folded the black leather belt in two and the first blow fell neatly across my breasts. The sharp pain ran through all my body, making me whimper and sob through the gag. I hadn't recovered from the first one and next one was already landing in the same spot. One after another, one harder than the other,the blows fell over my entire torso, leaving the red welts as silent witnesses of the pain. When I was a trembling mass, heaving and sobbing underneath him, he dropped the belt, grabbed the knife and cut the ropes that restrained her ankles, got off of me, flipped me and raised my hips, opening wide my thighs. His hands crumpled my ass cheeks as he approach his face to my dripping slit. His tongue licked some of it as he grunted his pleasure. A few moments later I could feel the top of his head poking my entrance and then in one hard thrust he was buried deep inside me, driving me through the last few steps to reach the edge and throw me right in the middle of the fantastic waves of the sweetest and wildest pleasure I've ever experienced. He leaned over my back, got a strong grip of my neck and with powerful thrusts he joined me in my pleasure and flooded my very core of his essence. We stayed like this for a few moments while our breaths recovered. He reached for the knife and cut me loose, and then he helped me spit out my gag and removed his balaclava. He lay on the floor, resting my head on his chest, and caressed my hair gently. "Was I up to your expectations, pet?" he asked, not really needing to hear the answer. "Yes, Master, you went way beyond them! Another dream comes true!" I answered, smiling meekly, still shaking from the whole experience. I was running fast, through the trees, being scratched by the bushes, my feet sore and hurting, but I couldn't stop. I could hear him behind me, getting closer and closer. And my heart was pounding so hard I could feel it in the back of my throat. I stumbled with a hidden root and I fell to the floor with a muffled cry and a second later, he was on top of me, his broad body pinning me to the ground, one hand pushing my head down, showing me his power over me. He didn't waste one more second, and he flipped me, straddled me and his hands trashed my top, ripping it into rags, and using it to tie my hands tight, in front of me, totally ignoring my screams, my struggles and my kicks. He got up, threw me over his shoulder and carried me through the woods, going deeper in, away from any trail or any possible interference. I kept screaming, and squirming, until his hand landed hard over my ass cheeks, followed by the threat. "Cut it off, or you'll regret it!" his voice was harsh and muffled by the black balaclava he was wearing. I went silent and still, deciding I should regain strength for the right moment, when I would be able to escape. He reached a clearing in the woods and threw me hard to the floor, expelling all the air from my lungs. A second later he was securing my tied hands to a rope already attached to a tree trunk, stretched over my head. When I realized he had the place prepared, I saw all possibilities of escaping being killed right there and then, and desperation made me resume my struggle against him. His hard hand crossed my face, violently, leaving me sobbing and crying, while he finished tying my ankles, wide opened, to the other ropes he had displayed. Then he grabbed a scary knife from the floor and started to cut off my shorts and panties. He grabbed the remains of my panties, and with his eyes locked in mine, he took them slowly to his nose, inhaling deep the sweet perfume of my arousal. He gave me an evilly grin as he leaned forward and pushed the panties in my mouth, as deep as he could, to prevent me from spitting them out. With the knife he cut a last piece of clothes, my bra, leaving me there, naked, vulnerable and exposed to him. He slipped backwards a bit, staying over my hips, and then his hands moved to this belt, and he slowly unbuckled it and slid it out of his jeans. My eyes followed every move he made, while my heart raced frantically in my chest and fear and expectation installed themselves in me. He folded the black leather belt in two and the first blow fell neatly across my breasts. The sharp pain ran through all my body, making me whimper and sob through the gag. I hadn't recovered from the first one and next one was already landing in the same spot. One after another, one harder than the other,the blows fell over my entire torso, leaving the red welts as silent witnesses of the pain. When I was a trembling mass, heaving and sobbing underneath him, he dropped the belt, grabbed the knife and cut the ropes that restrained her ankles, got off of me, flipped me and raised my hips, opening wide my thighs. His hands crumpled my ass cheeks as he approach his face to my dripping slit. His tongue licked some of it as he grunted his pleasure. A few moments later I could feel the top of his head poking my entrance and then in one hard thrust he was buried deep inside me, driving me through the last few steps to reach the edge and throw me right in the middle of the fantastic waves of the sweetest and wildest pleasure I've ever experienced. He leaned over my back, got a strong grip of my neck and with powerful thrusts he joined me in my pleasure and flooded my very core of his essence. We stayed like this for a few moments while our breaths recovered. He reached for the knife and cut me loose, and then he helped me spit out my gag and removed his balaclava. He lay on the floor, resting my head on his chest, and caressed my hair gently. "Was I up to your expectations, pet?" he asked, not really needing to hear the answer. "Yes, Master, you went way beyond them! Another dream comes true!" I answered, smiling meekly, still shaking from the whole experience.

Topbar Social Icons Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings with Kicked-Up Ranch Chicken wings are pretty much the ultimate party food, game food and appetizer. I've always liked ordering them in restaurants, but never really considered making them at home until I came across this yummo recipe. I found it over on allrecipes.com, which is one of my favorite recipe sites. The ingredients list seemed simple enough so I though I'd give them a shot. If you have a small home fryer you could always fry the wings like the restaurants do, but who would want to do that when you can BAKE them! Less grease is always a good thing in my opinion, especially when you don't have to sacrifice texture or taste. These wings manage to come out nice and crispy by placing them under the broiler before serving. Now, as far as what dip to serve with the wings, I'm not a fan of blue cheese (I just can't seem to bring myself to like cheese that has turned blue), which is the traditional dip for the chicken wing. I've included my favorite ranch recipe that compliments the wings perfectly. I always make a big batch of the ranch and use the leftovers on salads or to dip fresh veggies. Try these chicken wings and I think you'll agree, they're tangy, tasty and finger-licking good! 1 tsp cayenne pepper (You can adjust this to taste. It's always best to add a little, taste, then add more if you want it spicier.) RANCH 1 cup of buttermilk 1 1 oz package of ranch dressing or dip mix (I use Hidden Valley. I always use a full package, however I suggest starting with a half a package, tasting and then adding more to taste. A full package ends up having a more saltier taste than some prefer.) ¼ tsp black pepper ¼ tsp garlic powder ⅛ tsp cayenne pepper Instructions Follow directions on your bag of chicken wings for cooking instructions. The time will vary depending on whether you are starting with frozen wings or thawed. After the wings have baked, dip them in the sauce and then return them to the baking sheet. Broil wings for 1-2 minutes, baste, flip and return to the broiler for another 1-2 minutes. Continue basting, flipping and broiling until the wings are as dark as you like. (I like my wings to have little charred spots, so I cook mine extra long!) For the ranch, combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Refrigerate for at least a half hour to allow flavors to blend.

Sunday, March 25, 2007 Aliens Attack A typical Briton preparing to unleash himself on the flower of American womanhood. There were a couple of related stories on the BBC website late last week that had a fair amount of resonance for me. First up was actor, wit, and Mondale's role model* Stephen Fry, who caused a stir by suggesting that the continued success of British actors in Hollywood had less to do with their stage chops and more to do with their elongated vowels: As my accent and myself having lived in the US for 12 years I'm somewhat of an expert on this phenomenon. I can't speak for my female counterparts, but I've found as a chap that a little drop of one's Gordon's gin accent often will smooth the path in professional or personal encounters. Much of what is said in the two BBC articles is undeniably yet superficially true, but let me offer my fellow British men a word of caution. Accent adoration has a half-life formula, which I'll try to lay out below: Accent adorability = Degree of resemblance to Hugh Grant + hair floopiness + general bashful loveliness / amount of time someone actually spends with you after realizing that you are as obsessed with sport as much as American men + potency of your farts + first time you are observed out of your nut on Theakston's Old Peculier Your sports obsessions are much more quaint (cricket vs. American football or fox hunting vs. NASCAR, for instance) than American sports obsessions. The quaintness of the sports negates the "out of the nut" portion of the divider. Sadly, nothing balances out the tooters, but you're still ahead of the American male. I love the British accent and I think I am pretty good at speaking in a British accent, just ask Mondale i read an entire book in the accent , one year in his classroom BBBUUUTTTT I hate how people (especially women) get all ga ga over the accent. I have had many experiences while working with Mondale on how parents and others get all flabbergasted when he speaks and don't even notice me on the side rolling my eyes at their stupidity and obvious ga ganess(couldnt think of better word)It's the same for a man with a spanish accent, my husband has charmed many women just by speaking. It's so ridiculous.Especially if you know my husband or Mondale :) Your formula is positively brilliant! Did that sound too British? What with the brilliant and all? It's a shame the American Hillbilly accent doesn't have the same mesmerizing affect on people. My family would be on top of the heap. Although they would probably chunder all over my patio for saying it, I have a sneaking suspicion that your average Aussie bloke is much closer to your average red state American than you lovely Canadians are, Joe. Not to knock the standard issue Ocker, but just to acknowledge that we most condemn in others what we fear to see in ourselves. Ms Clockwathcher, I do beg to differ somewhat. I loved the hillbilly accent as a child hearing it on TV. At least coming from this mouth.

Q: Derogatory term for electronic device In German, the term "Kiste", literally meaning "box", is often used as a colloquial derogatory term for electronic and mechanical devices. It is comparable to "jalopy", which, however, seems to be restricted to automobiles (according to dict.cc). Is there a comparable term one can put into the following sentences? I am lucky if this [term for desktop computer] boots without blue screen of death. Most times this [term for TV set] shows nothing but snow. A: Piece of junk refers to something that is cheap, shoddy, or worthless. It can be used as an oject as in "This piece of junk won't boot." or a modiying adjective as in "This piece-of-junk computer won't boot" (with or without hyphens). Related adjectives can be used with the name of the device. These include: "Junky", "shoddy", "trashy", "lousy", "worthless", "crappy" (oh, and, of course, "shitty"). Boat Anchor which merely means the device is only suitable for that purpose. "This computer has become a boat anchor" (Urban Dictionary, definitions 2 and 3, Ham.net shows the term used in practice.) Doorstop similar to "boat anchor". "This computer only works as a door stop now." Junk Box No longer suitable for anything except to be cannibalized for spare parts. (See wikipedia.) Usually this refers to just the parts themselves, already disassembled and collected into a box. But it parallels your German reference, so I thought it was worth adding. We also refer to some things as "hangar queens", which is alludes to aircraft that spend more time in repair than they do in service. Any products that can't get through the production process may be relegated to being hangar queens, with hopes that someone will eventually figure out how to repair them. A: Contraption (often paired as infernal contraption) refers to any mechanical or electronic device for which the author has some contempt. Gizmo can similarly be employed to mock some needless or useless technological contrivance, but it is not inherently negative. I can call something a gizmo to suggest I am overwhelmed by its complexity, or simply because I don't remember its name. Similarly, other generic terms like gadget or widget (for a part of a larger machine or device) are not inherently negative. There are a variety of ways to disrespect a car or other large mechanical machine: jalopy, rust bucket, beater, or clunker. There are also words and phrases for televisions, but these emphasize dislike for the medium of television itself as represented by the device, not the device itself: idiot box and boob tube. You could say I'm spending a mindless Saturday night in front of the boob tube, but you wouldn't say I hate my old boob tube, I need to get it replaced. A: Paper weight Implies that it is good for nothing other than holding paper in place.

Well dittoheaded "conservatives" mostly don't know shit from shinola about the UN Small Arms Treaty. However, periodically some think tank is paid by the Guns 'n Ammo industries to trot out this lying canard to gin up the yay-hooos, so that the fools can be easily parted from their money to buy yet more guns 'n ammo. This one, like the bigoted "joke" just below, gets trotted out regularly. Seen it a number of times now. There's info out there - I'm too lazy to look for it but use teh google as it's easy to find - about how WELL the guns 'n ammo industries have done since Obama was elected. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Obama is getting HUGE donations from BigGun & BigAmmo this year. Nothing, and I mean: NOTHING, would please the gun & ammo industries more than to see Obama re-elected. Obama is GREAT NEWS for the guns & ammo industry. The rubes are VERY easily ginned up to part with their money because of the N***** in the White House. These hyperventilating RWFs all say something like this. It's been said here before, but you'd think conservatives would get tired of being so goaded into fear and anger over every little thing that allegedly "happens" (most of it is illusory). Welcome to the Right-Wing Forward Museum MyRightWingDad.net is a museum dedicated to following the course of American history through a unique lens -- the emails "Red-America" forwards worldwide. Take a look around the archive using the keywords below, and leave a comment or two. This museum displays unedited, often offensive and untrue material with no endorsement intended by curators or contributors.

John Eric Byers is a critically acclaimed artist who painstakingly hand-tools wood to create minimalist, geometrically inspired pieces that are minimal, emotional and modernly refined. A former student of Wendell Castle, John's work is guided by a purity in form, surface texture, repetition and respect for use of materials. As noted by Grace Glueck in the New York Times " The carved, patterned surfaces add considerable interest to his simplified forms, as does his exquisite attention to detail." Heralded as a leading American artist working in wood, John's pieces are in the permanent collections at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington,D.C. His numerous awards include The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and inclusion in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Arts. Additional comments on his work: "Like any master, Byers' hides his painstaking labor, and his finished work appears to have been accomplished easily..." - Ursula Ilse Neuman / Museum of Arts and Design "...his magnificent building blocks of design, the sphere and ellipse, circle, square, cylinder and rectangle. Straightforward and solid, in Byers' skillful hands they serve as large canvases on which he projects mesmerizing carved and painted patterns". - Jeannine Falino / American Craft Magazine "He marries a painters attention to surface with a craftsman's devotion...art that references history and modernism". - Cate Mcquaid / Boston Globe "Painstaking artisanal work, rigorous design, and that organic but highly refined and sophisticated sensibility that’s the hallmark of what we call DesignCraft. "

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Americans must be the most gullible simpletons in the world. They will believe anything. No fantasy is too absurd. No lie is too ridiculous. Much of what they now take for granted an earlier generation would have taken for preposterous, outrageous, and criminal. According to presidential candidate Donald Trump they are prepared to believe that China is to blame for their financial problems… No kidding. When asked what he’d do to fix the US economy, ‘The Donald’ says he’d ‘get tough with China.’ What dastardly thing are the Chinese doing? What devious, underhanded act are they committing? “Tariffs are not paid by the Chinese. They’re paid by Americans who buy things made by the Chinese.” Americans are barely able to keep up with their expenses already; raising prices wouldn’t do them any favor that we can see. But in the US, crackpot ideas are as common as democrats. In the ’90s, Americans thought they could get rich by buying companies that weren’t earning any money. Then, they thought they could get rich by buying a house. When that went bad, they whined for bailouts and handouts. And now they think the feds are helping them by printing more money. Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up! But their delusions don’t stop there. They also believe that for the last 10 years the world’s only super-power has been at war with 372 Muslim extremists. And that somehow we’ll be safer if we let TSA agents grope our grandmothers and pat down our toddlers. And how about this? It is obvious to the whole world that US Commander-in-Chief Obama ordered a hit squad to disappear Osama bin Laden; but in the USA, people think the SEALs were conducting a heroic military operation. And they dumped his body in the ocean because they didn’t want to offend the Muslim brotherhood. You have to like people who would believe something like that. They’re loveable half-wits…earnest morons with the skeptical intelligence of a puppy. Nor does it bother them that their national financial plan is a calamity. Everyone who has thought about it for more than a second realizes that the secret to gaining wealth is to make money…save it…and invest it in new and more productive business opportunities. And yet, the government’s financial strategy for 4 decades has been to encourage consumer spending and borrowing, a program that is sure to lead to poverty. This strategy did not boost real economic growth in the US. But it did wonders for China. We are now on a plane, en route to Shanghai from Beijing. China is supposed to be a poor country. But there is no evidence of it so far. Instead, there are automobiles, highways, skyscrapers – as far as the eye can see. Factories by the thousands. Warehouses. Docks and freight yards. Plants. Mills. Apartment blocks that New York would be proud of. Office towers that Baltimore would envy. Trains. Loading platforms. Bridges. Storage yards. Assembly units. Round buildings. Square buildings. Rectangles. Ovals. Low rise. High rise. The scale of activity is breathtaking. And we haven’t reached Shanghai yet. Is there any description of China that doesn’t end in ‘st’? It has the biggest, newest, most daring and innovative buildings. It has the fastest trains…the most roads and cars. The richest. The poorest. It has everything. It has people too… Smart, hardworking people. Instead of borrowing to boost their standards of living, the Chinese save their money in order to reduce their standard of living…boost the next generation’s. The Chinese have already pulled off a miracle. It has only been 32 years since Deng Tsaioping opened up China to making money. In that time, the nation has gone from a third world dump to the world’s 2nd largest economy…whose growth rate continues to be shocking. What’s their secret? China is a zombie-free zone. The ‘safety net’ is thin here. There is plenty of corruption and inside dealing, no doubt. But people work hard…save their money…and expect to live by their own efforts. But the Chinese have gotten a lot of help from America. The feds encouraged Americans to buy things they didn’t need with money they didn’t have. The Chinese merely took the orders…and the money. Now they have the biggest stash of dollars in the world, while the US has the biggest, stinkiest pile of debt the world has ever seen. The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best economy-related bloggers out there. Our guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. To contact us about a blogger, click here. To add or view a comment on a guest blog, please go to the blogger's own site by clicking on the link above. Share this article Link copied. Next up Here are more stories that look at the news with empathy, insight, and hope.

Cassidy noticed the dust and thought the exercise room would be the last place her stoopid hoomins would go ... But it looks like her peace has been interrupted... Stoopid hoomins should learn only to come in the room when told by their Bun Masters!!! Cassidy wonders why you think she should "move" so you can "work out." This room was clearly decorated to match her (and black and white is so classy and elegant, afterall). Why would you "need" it for this "exercise" crap? Fleetie, you made me laugh this morning! It is a wonderful thing to just find bunnies around your house! When you do find them, they ALWAYS have a look like you caught them doing something wrong. It's so funny! @ Sixbunnies, my lop Jasmine will bink out of the room when you walk into it and see her getting into something she shouldn't be! Then I try to avoid the blast radius of Dodgers disapproval as he watches me walk through the room without moving! LOL PLB, there is a bunny network. They all communicate with each other. They have to to plan world domination. Probably telepathically! Mine are always ornery! Every single one of them! They act cute and cuddly, but the minute my back is turned, they are chewing and pooping and scratching and shedding ... hahaha! I just love them ... for all their bunniness!!!

Some people need to take the stupid red pill and smell the real smell of the end user (and I’m not talking about the proveribal they – not the guy who wrote the previous article. I don’t care what pills he takes, really. It’s his own business – I’m talking about the ‘they’ that compares setting up a Windows end-user desktop with setting up any flava’ of ux.) I’ve heard (and almost witnessed) that Red Hat is easier to setup than gentoo, but, for christ sake, let’s not compare apples and oranges. But I digress. I’ll expand on my thoughts about software communism, software capitalism, its followers and all that jazz some other time. I’ve had a blast starting to set up gentoo (cuz I ain’t done. heck no.) I love this hard core techie stuff. There were two blunders worth noting during my day of setup – during which I was able to actually get some work done. I mean, recompiling a kernel under an old celereon 400mhz processor is not exactly something you sit in front of with a bag of popcorn, expecting to be entertained. First think that got me and most of my community of open-source lover friends bogged was that the boot CD – that actually booted from the CD – did not detect my CD, my hard drive or anything else for that matter. Now, its an old computer, so I figure, ok… that’s possible. BUT YOU JUST BOOTED FROM THE DANG CD!! Why can’t you detect it!! Well, screaming at it didn’t work. So I messengered a few friends who told me run this piece of code, run that piece of code, execute this or that program. Most of the commands they wanted me to run were just not there. Which got them kinda screwed. But I had a nagging suspicion about the CD not being detected. I figured I was most likely on a ram drive – which can’t be big, the fraggin’ machine only has 128 megs of ram. So, if the CD was not detected, maybe the drivers for the HD could not be read (and all these nifty alien commands my friends got me to try and execute). Maybe I’ve got an old CD. (but you freakin’ booted from the CD, you moron! It’s there! I see it!!!). Eventually, someone mentionned that maybe, since my CD was an old creative lab ATAPI drive, that I needed some kind of special cd-rom driver or package or something. Well, fine. After some arguing and some browsing, I saw somewhere someone mentionning to go and try to add a kernel parameter command when you boot from the CD. Maybe I should get this stupid parameter tatooed. Or just plain fraggin’ mentionned somewhere in the doc. That’d be nice and would mutilate me less. So, the CD got detected and – lo and behold – so was the hard drives and stuff. The rest of the procedure ran as expected – I was following a walkthrough (if you have no fun playing the game, you can always resort to cheating) to get it done as fast as possible. After all, I don’t care too much about knowing how to tweak a kernel and optimize a network or whatever. I just want to get the damn server working. I’ll hire real pros for the hard stuff. So, I finished the basic config, which was so intuitive and user friendly, my dad could’ve done it. That’s sacrasm. If I had given this to my dad and said – “hey, dude, that’s an easy-to use OS! Install it on your system and tell me what you think!”, there’s only one thing that could’ve happened. I would’ve seen my father cry… for, like the second time in about 30 years of existance. (I did the same thing with a windows 95 setup CD, though, and he barely had to ask me for help.) Anyway, who cares. These kind of setups are not for the same kind of end users. Lets move on to blunder #2. That was my day-ender, really. I had to go and forget to set the stupid root password. How stupid can you be? (How hard could it be to fucking ask to set it during the normal setup process? Oh, wait, I forgot – there’s no such thing :P) It was a few hours of pleasure, trying to get a root password set in. I forgot the commands, but I have it at work somewhere. Basically, I had to boot back from the CD and redo a mounting of my hard drives onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/swap and /mnt/gentoo/proc or something like that. Then, I could chroot into my almost-completely set system, from where I could change the root password. Well, if worked! But I forgot to set a stupid DHCP client and so the station was not connected to the Internet (which was my goal) and I thus cannot access it remotely. Still, it was fun. I love puzzles. But it takes training to actually understand most of what I did in there. I suppose after you did a few setups in the same week, it starts to look rather easy. But it’s not. I follows a rule of software design that cannot be circumvented. More flexibility == less clarity You can streamline flexibility up to a certain point of elegance, of course. But ultimate elegance and clarity usually means less options. Though the Safari project began with the KHTML codebase, as time passes the projects are more and more distinct so keep that in mind. As personal experience, strict HTML/CSS/Scripting renders really alike in Firefox/Opera/KHTML, tweaks are usually needed only to flatten out the slight differences in the default stylesheet of each of them. The biggest problem with Safari right now is compatibility with proprietary MSIE hacks (like the awful document.all); Firefox and Opera show better support for this crap. In 1995, when a site didn’t render correctly, it was a designer’s mistake; now in 2005, it’s the browsers’ fault 🙂 Dang! Well, I’m not about to buy a Mac just to test out some pages in Safari… Let’s just all hope that Konqueror will have the same ‘display bug’ that the one I had reported in Safari. I see the “who’se fault is it” thingie to be the other way around, nowadays. If you stick to proper, not-too-modern design, it’ll be the designer’s fault if it wasn’t working. Back in ’95, it was just Netscape’s fault if you were developping and testing mainly on IE – or IE’s fault if you tested mainly on Netscape. Multiply that times two if you tried to cross OS as well… Sigh. The bad, old, rotten days of cross-browser design. A whole lot easier nowadays!!

Q. How to resume my period? Questions Hi doctor, I got married last month. Since my period date was clashing with my wedding date, I had to take some medicine in order to postpone my period. My normal period cycle is 27 or 28 days, but in the last few months due to stress Q. Hemorrhoids are affecting my mood very badly. How to manage? Questions Hi doctor, I had an eating disorder before 16 years. It stressed my health very severely for around 5 years. Now, I am 35 years old. Also, I suffer from hemorrhoids, which affect my mood very severely. I have social impairments as Q. How to treat itchy bumps on my vagina? Questions Hello doctor, I am a 25 year old unmarried female. From last one year, I have been suffering from vaginal infection. A few small bumps have grown inside the skin of the vagina. Sometimes, I feel itching inside it. I am sexually active with my Q. I am suffering from low blood pressure after C-section. How to deal with that? Questions Hi doctor, I had a C-section a week ago and got out of surgery with low blood pressure and kept it low for a few days. Now, after getting out of the hospital, I still feel the same Q. How to remove hyperpigmented scar? Questions Hi doctor, I am a 30 year old male. I have a disfigured nose tip with the hyperpigmented scar as a result of a Hydroquinone reaction (Melalite 15 cream). I have undergone several treatments including dermabrasion, subcision and chemical peel. Currently, I am taking Limcee (vitamin c) Q. My father is not realizing his psychological problem. How to treat him? Questions Hi doctor, My dad is 59 years old and had angioplasty three years back. After angioplasty, he was on high medication. Also, he started to develop psychological problems. He is having illusions that my mom is having affair with whosoever Q. How to manage post spinal headache? Questions Hello doctor, I am 31 years old. Four days ago, I had a C-section to deliver my baby. I had a spinal anesthesia and they also tried to put in an epidural catheter, but they could not. They just kept poking at me and eventually gave Q. My inner foreskin started burning after sex. How to heal this? Questions Hi doctor, A week back, I had sex with my wife using a condom. The condom appeared to be a bit dry and we had rough sex. After sex, when I was washing up with soap I felt some burning sensation Q. I have glans discoloration. How to treat that? Questions Hi doctor, I have a circular or oval area of discolored skin on the shaft of my penis, near the base. It started as a small circular area that looked very much like ringworm and now, it is much larger. The area of skin

MGT 325 Week 5 DQ 2 Green Supply Chain What is meant by a Green Supply Chain? Identify in 200 “� 250 words two techniques or processes that you could potentially propose to your organization’s supply management group to become more “Green”�. Be sure to respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

Today I happened to receive a package that was also a surprise. A little mystery package in a white box. “Hmm… funny.” I thought to myself “I don’t usually buy orders small enough to arrive contained in little white boxes like this one. Big white boxes, yes. Little ones, no. Wonder what it could be?” Then I thought to myself “Quit thinking to yourself, ya ninny and just open the box already!” So I did. It was the coolest thing I have ever received in the mail. Ever. For what it’s worth “Ever” translates to “This week” in Christina time, in case you were wondering. I just stared at it. I furrowed my brow, cocked my head to the side and looked at it inquisitively. I turned it around in my hands, inspecting it from every angle. Then I burst out laughing. It would appear that I was holding the largest roll of toilet paper known to man in my hands. It made all of the double rolls stored on the shelf in my laundry room tremble in fear. This roll of toilet paper wasn’t merely large, it was HUGE! The small slip of paper included with my toilet paper claimed that this one roll contained enough cushiony toilet paper softness to equal four rolls of my regular stuff. They encouraged me to try it, then buy more when I ran out. What they did not do was include a coupon. Don’t they know I’m a cheapskate? Well, if ye mighty toilet paper manufacturing Gods were generous enough to share their wares with yours truly for free, I decided it would only be proper of me to use them. I headed towards the bathroom to remove my measly looking, almost empty roll of toilet paper from the holder. I carefully inserted the new roll onto the dispenser and pushed firmly to lock it into place. Then I pushed a little harder. Next I gave it a good solid thump with both hands. It must not have been expecting that, because it worked and my new supersized roll of t.p. was in place and ready to be used. Just for the heck of it I grabbed a square and tugged. It came off in my hands. Huh??!!! I tried again. Same result. Well that’s just plain stupid. There was so much cushiony softness on this monstrosity sized roll that it was pressed against the cabinet and couldn’t spin to dispense the paper. *sigh* I took the toilet paper holder back out of the dispenser, almost causing serious injury to myself in the process when all of the pressure holding the roll in place was dispersed. I removed the slightly disheveled roll of paper from the spindle and slowly started unwinding it so that it would be small enough to spin in the dispenser. Everything was going great until my 3 year old decided to slam open the bathroom door and yell “Mama!!! You in here??!!!” while staring directly at me. It scared me enough that I jumped a little (okay, a lot. Like five feet straight up). The jerking motion of my hands caused the toilet paper to fly up into the air in an arch over my head. Being the oh so quick on my feet thinker that I am I just stood there watching as the roll bounced off the window sill, clipped the corner of the sink, which in turn caused it to go hurtling towards shower curtain where it slid to the floor and proceeded to spin in a dizzying sort of way, flinging lengths of toilet paper every which way across the room. Finally the spinning slowed and the toilet paper rolled across the floor coming to a rest against a red plastic toy boat that was sitting in a puddle of water from a recent bath. I looked around bleakly at the toilet paper that was draping the sink and tangled in the towel rack. I was amazed by the amount covering the floor. I marveled at the size of the roll now that it had managed to soak up the pond sized puddle of water that the toy boat had been resting in. My meek little, almost spent roll of double wide paper sat right where I had left it on a shelf above the toilet silently mocking me. I let the little bit of paper that I had managed to retain in my hands fall from my fingers and drift silently to the floor. Then I looked at my son and said “Yes, Jon. I’m in here. What do you need?” He replied “I dunno, I just wanna know if you in here Mama.” and then he walked out slamming the door behind him.

Sadism: A Day in the Life of Aunt Flo I have a full understanding of the fact that having one’s period is part of a natural reproductive cycle, but considering the fact that my reproductive cycle seems to be anything BUT natural or reproductive, I like to imagine that having my period is less nature, and more wicked little sadistic fairy that looks like Helena Bonham Carter, sprinkling a healthy helping of misery over my life for a week each month. This is her story. ***** 5am. Rise and shine! It’s important to get an early start on a day like today. The early bird catches the worm, and all that. No worms today, though. Today we need to be sure our girl here wakes up in a pool of her own blood. Oh! You know what? Just for kicks, and because I haven’t had my coffee yet, let’s throw in some stabby, electric-shock-to-the-uterus, drop-to-your-knees, curl-up-in-the-fetal-position cramps. And let’s start those… ohhh… about five minutes before her alarm goes off, because we all know how valuable those last few minutes of sleep can be… Ahh, she’s up. Time for a shower, dearie! Yes, go ahead and get in… the hot water will help the cramps. Perfect. Now that she’s got a head full of shampoo, cue the diarrhea. Today is going to be just lovely for us both, I can tell! ***** You may think that I’m doing all of this to be a spiteful bitch, but you’re wrong. I care. A lot! I even went as far as to show up three days early this month, because the last time I took a long weekend, she spent thirty bucks on pregnancy tests and then spiraled into a week-long funk when my inevitable visit finally did occur. I do this because she needs to know that this is how nature works. Sure, for her it seems like she’s being punished, and sure, sometimes I get a kick out of waving my wand and causing a tampon malfunction at a most inopportune time, but honestly, she needs me. Because of me, at least she knows that she has a nice, healthy endometrial lining. And that it sheds. PROFUSELY. You’re welcome, sweetie. ***** Okay, back to today’s activities. It looks like our girl has managed to make it through her shower, dressed herself, and has applied enough makeup to cover a little of her fatigue. Oh, honey. Khakis? Well okay, but that’s going to be a problem later. Alright, almost out the door. Just one last sip of juice and.. what’s that? Oh, she thinks I don’t get the irony of taking a prenatal vitamin on a day like today? Well, I do, and she’s going to pay for that. I’m going to wait until she gets to the busiest intersection in town before I make her puke up the entire contents of her stomach. God, I love my job. Oh! I almost forgot! I need to set the Bleed-Through Alarm! I think once every hour and a half should do it, wouldn’t you say? What, you think that’s too much? Naaah. Our girl here is tough. And besides, she needs to learn not to wear khakis, like ever. ***** Where were we…? Oh right. Our girl just tossed her cookies all over Cherry Street. It looks like she’s now making a stop into a grocery store. She probably ran out of feminine hygiene supplies. Oh, she’s quick! I need to move fast if I’m going to make sure that Peg, the kindly and sympathetic middle-aged cashier, is to go on break, and to be sure that whatever Frat-Boy-on-Summer-Vacation that’s working the morning shift is there to cash out her embarrassingly obvious purchase. At least she didn’t buy a giant Hershey bar this time. Oh wait… So predictable. Tsk, tsk. ***** Ah, so she’s made it to the office. I don’t know why she thought heels were a good idea today, but I guess I’ll have to teach her yet another Menstrual Fashion Lesson. Cue the lower back pain. And random bouts of dizziness. Right abouuuuuuut… Now. Although Midol makes my job a little more difficult, here at her place of employment, she’s away from the true enemy – The Heating Pad. A little pain reliever and anti-bloat medication won’t put a dent in my beautifully orchestrated Zombie Lurch each time she tries to run to the bathroom. No, sir. This ain’t my first rodeo. I’m an artist! ***** Well, we’ve made it to lunch. Ah, wise choice. She’s skipping out on sustenance for fear of triggering any more of my creatively timed Digestive Pyrotechnics. As if that would stop me… I think it’s time to call in the reserves. Afternoon Fatigue, this is a job for you. I want her curled up in her office chair in absolute misery. The bags under the eyes are a nice touch! Ha, she thinks caffeine will make a difference! How about fatigue plus jitters? Let’s throw a little anxiety about those khakis in for kicks, too. I told you she’d pay. ***** Home at last. See how she makes a play for her sweatpants and the dreaded Heating Pad? That’s not going to work for me. I’m not above shorting out that wretched device, but for today I’ll settle for inspiring her husband to bring home Chinese instead. That should trigger some gag reflexes at least… Oh, better yet, now they’re fighting! Perfect! ***** Ah yes, off to bed. Early, too. As if that will help her get any more rest tonight. She’s barely eaten all day, and her life force has been quite literally draining out of her since she woke up. Of course she’s feeling tired and fatigued, but the caffeine-mainlining act she’s been performing today will come back to bite her the second her head hits that pillow. Like this: Related 8 comments on “Sadism: A Day in the Life of Aunt Flo” That sounds terrible, but you write about it with such humor I almost spit out the water I was drinking while reading. Plus you totally reminded me to take my prenatal vitamin, so thanks for that. But really, sorry Flo’s being such a vindictive bitch. Haha! I hope that you, too, can laugh at the bitch. Even just the tiniest bit?? Oh, wait, maybe it’s better that you don’t, already sounds like she’s got it out for you!! Someone needs to send her on a looooong vacation! This Is My Deal... I'm Tracy. I'm a thirty-something, happily married miscarriage survivor, who tried just about everything possible to conceive for over five years, is currently parenting our miracle baby girl, and blogging about the hilarity of it all. Join me, won't you? 2013 Hope Award Winner I am so honored to have received RESOLVE's 2013 Hope Award for Best Blog! A safe space where I discuss the racing thoughts in my head, personal struggles, and day-to-day activities while struggling with mental health and mood disorder issues. My personal goal is to reduce the stigma that comes with mental health and mood disorders, by talking more about it.

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Don Dolmes: I, uh, I feel good about today. You know? Uh, it's a great scene, it's really intimate. Uh, I, you know, I love my job. I love my job. I love women. Uh, I respect them. Um, they're just like guys, they just wanna bust a nut. Announcer: Don Dolmes was the largest grossing adult film actor of the late eighties. And one of the most mysterious stars of all time. Camryn Kiss: Yeah, I heard he was a legend. I mean, I never got to work with him, but I wish I could have. Announcer: His claim to fame? The smallest penis in the history of pornography. [Music Playing] Announcer: The story of Don Dolmes has never been told, until now. Announcer: We caught up with the reclusive Dolmes at his workshop in Lancaster, California. Don Dolmes: Why do you think I was reluctant to talk to you guys, man? I was in porn! You know? I mean, come on! Not a lot of people, uh, you know, who do that in their past just shout that from the rafters. Like, hey, I'm Don Dolmes, I have the smallest co%k in porn. Ryan French: To you, he'll always be Don Dolmes. But, to me, I'll always remember him as little Jeffysaurus. He was charismatic, funny, like, a good leader. I mean, those are the ways I remember, you know, Don, I mean, he was... Don Dolmes: I think of myself as a sexual philosopher. You know? I think of myself as a, an erotic explorer. You know? I'm sort of the, I'm the Cortez of pu*sy. Captain Colonel: Hi. I'm uh, Captain Colonel, I run, uh, Straight Up Fu*k Pictures. Uh, I been running it for a long time, twenty-five years. I met Don Dolmes back in nineteen eighty-three, and, uh, he was our water guy. Sometimes instead of tipping him, I would let him look at one of our movies. So, uh, we just finished this 'not with my daughter, you don't' movie, and I said come on over and take a look, kid, it's pretty fun. But, I keep looking and I'm like, you seem like you're pretty hot and heavy, and he's like oh, I'm as hot, as hard as a steel rod right now, and it just looked like someone had put like, some throwing dice in his pants or something. It was just a slight little ridge there. This was the moment when I knew, Colonel Captain, somethin's gonna happen special, here. We started shooting movies and that was it. This sh*t took off like a rocket ship. Announcer: Written in just forty-five minutes, The Little Co%k That Could told the story of a water delivery man with a really small penis. Don Dolmes: I gotta be honest, man. I thought it was just another gig. You know? I thought it was just another random thing to do. I didn't know that it would take off and I would become this. [Music Playing] Dan Healy: This is where it all happens. This is my shrine to Don. Uh, uh, all these video tapes, uh, uh, this is, uh, Don Dolmes bootlegs, this is a lot of outtakes, uh, this is some conceptual stuff that he did, uh, a western, but, uh, and, uh, and, uh, here's a, uh, uh, this is my, this is my favorite thing right here. I don't know if you need me to, it says, to Dan, again. [Laughs] It's a little joke between he and I because I, I'd write him pretty often trying to get a picture, and he sent me several, but I just wanted to get as many as I could. I need to get a, what do you call that? Announcer: Between the summer of nineteen eighty-three, and the fall of nineteen eighty-six, Dolmes made over two thousand movies. John Pappageogidis: Before I met Don Dolmes, my life, the life of John Pappageogidis was sh*t. Okay? To put it simply. I worked at an old age home in like a, in like a hospice care unit. I would record the life stories of people who were soon to die. You know? Brad Jarvis: Don Dolmes saw a, a market, that, uh, had not been tapped. Uh, and, uh, and he, he just struck while the iron was hot. We owe our, uh, our lives, we owe our house to Don. Don Dolmes: I'm always fu**in' fightin'. Right? Cause I'm a fighter. I'm a fighter, I am an underdog. I am scraping tooth and fu**in' nail. I will fu**in' destroy! I will fu**in' HUH! Dan Healy: My appreciation of, of, of Mister Dolmes started, uh, with the first film that, uh, I saw, uh, Teeny Tiny Victory In The Hole. Uh, he, he speaks for the common man. Uh, those who might not be as well endowed as some of the other, uh, stars out there. Um, I think of him as a, uh, sensible car. I can identify with him. Captain Colonel: This guy's co%k was small. You know how you look at a orca whale, and you're like 'oh, the eye is where the white spot is', and then you go up and you're like 'oh, it's not an eye, it's actually over here.' That's what his co%k was like. Dan Healy: Uh, this, this is from Kindergarten Co%k. Um, I'm his partner. Uh, Don you've gotta get in there and fu*k that pu*sy 'til it's unconscious. You telling me how to run my bureau? Oh, I couldn't. You're the best. Announcer: In just three short years, Dolmes had gone from a nobody water delivery man to an international star. Ryan French: When Don got famous, you know, we kinda fell out of touch. I guess when you get famous, you know, you hang out with all your celebrity friends in your limos and stuff. You don't wanna hang out with your friends, you've known, your whole life I guess. Don Dolmes: And I understand people like, uh, you know, the president of Haiti and people like Britney Spears who are important figures and that there's so much riding on that. You know, I, I became, I became something that wasn't me. I mean, I became something that, that, that, this symbol for people. Captain Colonel: I mean everyone was around. Everyone who wanted to be near the heat that was Don Dolmes. When I fu**in' walk into a room there'd be Venus Generalitis would be next to him. I looked over to my right and the guy was inside R2D2's over there smoking a joint. I mean, this was celebrity heaven going on. Don Dolmes: I took kickboxing with David Lee Roth, he was a buddy of mine. I went hot air ballooning with Mick Jagger. I, um, I hung out with Andy Warhol. I mean, me. You know? What the fu*k am I doing with Andy Warhol? [Laughs] Dan Healy: He single-handedly changed the landscape for human sexuality. I mean, I think he's the Rosa Parks of fetish sex. Announcer: In nineteen eighty-six, at the height of his fame, Dolmes founded The Freak Farm. Establishing himself as one of the major players in the fetish sex industry. Tina Tiny Vaginy: Oh, I'm pretty much known as, um, having the smallest vagina in porn. And, um, I mean I was in the business way long before Don was, but purely in a gimmick-y way. You know? Like directors would mostly have me sucking off a midget, or like, diddling myself with a Q-Tip. And, you know, Don really legitimized me. Don Dolmes: I love working with Tina. She's the best, she's the best. And, you know, her and I getting together is a no-brainer. You got the smallest pu*sy in porn, you got the smallest dick in porn. And, uh, it's just, you know working with her is, it's not work. She's a great person, she's got a beautiful old soul, just a gorgeous pu*sy, and, uh, it's nice to be fu**ing somebody and they know that you're fu**ing them. Tuna Can Co%k: Freak Farm was amazing. You know, Don put together, uh, a, a, a, group of, of, like, the most talented, uh, uh, most, uh, bizarre people. You know? Don had a real eye for that stuff. He could, he could spot a freak. If we went out to a restaurant, Don would be like [Snaps Fingers] boom! Don Dolmes: You know, it's kinda like, you know, a calling. You know what I mean? It's kind of like, like I can tell that you have, you know, your pubic hair is a different color just because of the way you carry yourself. I can see that the, the sound woman there, you know, she might have two butt holes. I can't tell. There's something going on in the back, you know? Brynne Jarvis: I was never comfortable having sex with strangers. But, having sex with a family member? I mean, my parents had sex with each other. That's my mom and my dad. You know? They're family to me. And so, for us to be family and do it too, well it just made sense. I mean. Tuna Can Co%k: My penis? Uh, well, it's, uh, about two and a quarter inch in length, but then three and three quarters inch in diameter. So, it's wider than it is long. Brad Jarvis: The whole Freak Farm was kind of a, a family. Um, it was, it was just a place where people could come and not be judged. You know? And it's hard when you're a brother and sister porn team. I'm old fashioned. [Baby Crying] I don't want to cum in the face of just any old stranger. Don Dolmes: The Freak Farm also, um, was like giving a, uh, you know, a drug addict a ticket to Amsterdam. Tuna Can Co%k: I quit my job, I quit school, and I quit my family. And do you know why? Because when Don Dolmes started the Freak Farm, he gave me a place to go that offered me a chance at greatness. [Girl and Guy Moaning] Don Dolmes: You feel that co%k in your sweet little a*s? Porn Star: No, not at all! Don Dolmes: I'm ashamed of some of it, sure. You know? I did some things, I said some things. I, uh, I put some things in places that I never should have. Never should have. Jim: Working with Don can be very difficult. Um, not being, you know, sharing, not sharing his genius I can't really judge his actions. I mean, you know, the product speaks for itself to a certain extent, so. Cinnamon: Come in. [Door Slams] Ted Shells: You have to sign for this package. Don Dolmes: No! You fu**ing idiot! What is wrong with this?! Do you know what this is called? It's called a fu**ing script you a*shole! Why don't you fu**ing learn how to use it?! I am sick of this sh*t! I am sick of this fu**ing sh*t! [Yelling] God damn it! Do you have any fu**ing idea how hard I work?! Do you have any idea?! Don Dolmes: You don't fu**ing do that to me, you a*shole! [Door Slams] You don't fu**in' do that to me! Don Dolmes: You look fu**in' great. Ted Shells: I'm ready to fu*k, dog. Captain Colonel: The most predictable part of any kind of star is the fall. I mean, first off you just stop thinking. He forgot what got him there. Ryan French: They took everything from Don. I mean, his house, his giraffe, I mean, I'll never forget them just leading it out of the house, it was like, a, like it was a prisoner of some kind. You know? Even his bumper boats. Brad Jarvis: When the, uh, when the thing with Ted happened, I mean, just, he was blindsided by it. Cause, I mean, when you're Don Dolmes, and you're, you're, you know, you're working with this acorn cap, you really think you have the market cornered. And, and, and then for someone to come off with like, this, I don't know, like a squirrel's toenail, it was absurdly small. Ted Shells: Don Dolmes is a liar. Okay? He claimed to have the smallest co%k in porno, which as we all know, turned out to be a falsehood. Paparazzi: Don! What's up with Ted Shells? Don Dolmes: Pfft. What, what do you mean? Nothin'. I never think about Ted Shells. Why should I? Guy's a loser. He's jealous, he's fu**in' petty, he's tired of living in the gigantic shadow of my tiny co%k and he just can't handle it. Ted Shells: The size of my dick is registered. That's on a registry with printed numbers. So, fu*k you! Don Dolmes: Fu*k that. Fu*k that. Let's go get some pu*sy. Ted Shells: I challenged that guy to a dick measuring contest numerous times, and he did not return my calls. So, I did what I had to do. I called him out. The Governor Awards, eighty-nine. Don Dolmes: I will karate chop the fu*k out of you! Ahh! You mother fu**er! [Camera Sound] Ted Shells: Why are you doing this movie about him, anyway? Dude, I've been doin' a lot of stuff right now. About, uh, how much film do you have in that thing? Do you wanna shoot some stuff? I got a lot goin' on right now. Don Dolmes: He shot me down and shook my confidence. I, uh, I buried myself in a bottle. I was, uh, doing drugs, and at the end of a, uh, I don't know, like a four or five day drug bender, I, uh, apparently I had a party. And, uh, you know, when you're, when you wake up in a puddle of your own sh*t, and a stack of bills, and a bunch of angry voice mails, you start to think. You know? What happened to me? Why? Who's wallet is this? Captain Colonel: Suddenly, as opposed to trusting himself and loving himself, and doing what he did best, which was fu**in' having sex with anonymous drug addict ladies, he went down this whole dark path. Brad Jarvis: When Don died, we, uh, we were just shipwrecked. We were ship-, we just didn't know where to, we didn't go to the funeral because we couldn't get a sitter. Don Dolmes: I, uh, I walked away. I had too much. I decided I wanted out, so I got out. I, uh, I faked my own death which, uh, wasn't actually as hard as you might think. Um, you know, I, I put two and two together, you know, I, Captain Colonel was my best friend. He's a, uh, horrible gossip. He is a, uh, alcoholic superstitious, uh, manic-depressive, who believes in ghosts. And I put all these things together, so what I did, after I was, you know, off the radar for a couple of days, I showed up to his house in the middle of the night, and I was pale and sweaty like I usually am, and I told him that I was dead, and I was, uh, a ghost. And, uh, I told him that I got killed by a lawnmower, and he took it from there. You know? His imagination ran with it. Captain Colonel: Don died. Don died like all of us die. He didn't die like a superstar, he died like a human being. He was walking across the street eating a sandwich and a bus hit him. It was that simple. Shattered his spine, he sh*t his pants, insisted he could get up and walk. It was like watching a shot deer not knowing that it's shot. Actually went into Subway, ordered a whole hoagie, ate it, made several phone calls, bought a copy of Baseball Digest, looked up some stats, and just like that, [Snaps Fingers] four months later, he realized he had been hit, and was gone, in the blink of an eye a year and a half later, he was gone. Don Dolmes: I guess that's why it worked. I mean, if anybody even sort of wanted to find me, they could. Ted Shells: What isn't Ted Shells doing today? Uh, I'm still on top, man. Still making movies, and I'm, uh, I'm just still getting it done. John Pappageogidis: My life is a lot different now, but better. You know? Like better, and like a lot. I mean like, I'm an entrepreneur. You know? Like, I own my own company. Tuna Candles. You know, it's a, it's a candle that is the exact, uh, representation physically of my co%k. And I sell those on the interweb, and that's pretty great for that, like, I've got some orders. Ted Shells: I'm touring. Now. I'm doing, I'm on a fu*k tour of Europe. Uh, and then I head to Bangkok, Oriental City, and, um, I'll fu*k a lot of people there, take some pictures, do the thing, sign some autographs, kiss some babies, you know, that whole thing. Don Dolmes: I've got a good, it's a good life. It's a good life. I'm not gonna, you know, it's not as exciting as my life was before. Um, but that's not such a bad thing. [Laughs] Um, you know, boring is good sometimes. Yep. Boring is good sometimes. Don Dolmes: Just, a lighter shade of paint up here. Woman: Just right there on the top? Don Dolmes: Well, because historically, these houses were often uh, painted and built by the Welsh. Woman: Uh-huh. Don Dolmes: Welsh immigrants. And they were scared of heights, so they would have, they would have Germans, or Dutch. Captain Colonel: I'm not the brightest guy in the world. I made a lot of money, but I'm not the brighest guy in the world. I got a seventy-eight IQ and I'll tell you that the second I meet you. Uh, I've got scabies. I've got chronic scabies. Um, my heart rate is permanently around the range of one seventy-five, one ninety. Uh, I've, have I, have I, am I a convicted sex offender? Yes. I am, and I'll tell you about it. I've done weird stuff around people. I've shown my co%k to nuns, uh, I'm, I've bankrupted five times, declared bankruptcy. Uh, fu*k it, the limited jurisdictions run out, I took a pot shot at Gerald Ford back in the seventies. I said fu*k it. I was smoking a lot of coke, I'm gonna shoot that fu**er. He kept sneaking into my bedroom at night and telling me to cut off my co%k. I gotta end it.

Törnblom, Olle Abstract [en] The separating turbulent flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser with 8.5 degrees opening angle is investigated experimentally and computationally. The considered flow case is suitable for fundamental studies of separation, separation control and turbulence modelling. The flow case has been studied in a specially designed wind-tunnel under well controlled conditions. The average velocity and fluctuation fields have been mapped out with stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV). Knowledge of all velocity components allows the study of several quantities of interest in turbulence modelling such as the turbulence kinetic energy, the turbulence anisotropy tensor and the turbulence production rate tensor. Pressures are measured through the diffuser. The measured data will form a reference database which can be used for evaluation of turbulence models and other computational investigations. Time-resolved stereoscopic PIV is used in an investigation of turbulence structures in the flow and their temporal evolution. A comparative study is made where the measured turbulence data are used to evaluate an explicit algebraic Reynolds stress turbulence model (EARSM). A discussion regarding the underlying reasons for the discrepancies found between the experimental and the model results is made. A model for investigations of separation suppression by means of vortex generating devices is presented together with results from the model in the plane asymmetric diffuser geometry. A short article on the importance of negative production-rates of turbulent kinetic energy for the reverse flow region in separated flows is presented. A detailed description of the experimental setup and PIV measurement procedures is given in a technical report.

Tag My sister got caught fucking her teacher, so my mom makes her go to sex-aholics classes or whatever. She is so fucking hot! We are always talking about her “addiction” which just means that she can’t get enough dick. She has only been my sister for 6 months. Do you know how hard that makes me. I came home from school and she said that she just got back from one of her classes and all they do is talk about sex which just makes her more horny. She said she hadn’t touched a dick in a week and needed one. She made me pull my cock out and then just started sucking it like a hungry baby on a tit. She got butt-naked and gagged and slobbered all over my hard knob. It felt so fucking good. She begged for my cum so I gave it to her like the “fix” she needed. I think I’m her new dealer. This video is my baby. I rush completed this due to a family emergency and it came out wonderfully. I hope you enojoy.|| It was a simpler time, when all a wife wanted was to get some fuck. In this video Emma Chase is your gorgeous 1950’s housewife. She’s at home all day dolling herself up and cleaning for when you get home! She has something extra special up her sleeve today… She prepares you your beverage as usual and waits by the door for when you enter at precisely 4:10 PM. She guides you to the bedroom and attempts to make her move, but you push her away. It’s been a long day and you just want to relax. She’s been speaking to that Susan again, and has an idea for something she can give you that will require no effort whatsoever. Why not let her give it a go? This stunning newcomer, Gia Derza, loves to have fun with a big hard cock in her slutty mouth! The horny babe begs to get face fucked intensively until she takes, with her mouth opened, all the hot cum! I’m getting married soon and my daddy paid for everything. He got me the dress I wanted, the venue, everything. It makes sense because I’ve been fucking him ever since I became legal. I’m his number one special secret baby girl. He has taught me everything I know that helped me get a man to propose to me. The only thing is my soon to be husband and I want to have a baby and I can’t keep fucking my daddy. But that doesn’t mean I can’t please him. I waited until we were home alone and called him in my room. I thanked him for buying me all the things for the wedding and that we are trying to have a baby. So we can’t have sex anymore. But that doesn’t mean I can’t show him how thankful I am by putting his big perfect daddy cock all the way down my throat just like he taught me. I sucked and spit on it just like a good girl. Stroking it and showing him my perfect body. Pulling and yanking on his hard dick until he came all over my chest. I will always be daddy’s good girl. Nadia White introduces herself, and shows off her tiny red lace lingerie. She shows off her giants tits, and bends over and shows off her perfect ass. She runs her fingers over her lace panties, and bends over the couch showing off every inch of her ass. Nadia pulls her panties to the side to give a better look of all of her holes. She unhooks her lace lingerie, right at her pussy and pulls them off. Nadia turns around and rubs her big boobs. “Do you like my pierced nipples? Don’t you think your huge cock would look nice in-between my huge breasts?” She wonders which is better? Her tits, or her ass? Conor walks in and begins to suck on Nadia’s breasts. Nadia bends over and Conor spreads her cheeks to show off her holes. He kisses and licks her asshole, worshipping every inch. “Why don’t you come over here and give it an extra inspection?” Conor runs his cock over Nadia’s ass, teasing fucking her ass cheeks. He fucks her breasts, running his cock in and out of the center of her giant perfect tits. Conor fucks Nadia’s tits until he cums all over them.. She giggles, “Well, I know which one is the favorite now..” You and your sis are super close. So close that it’s no big deal if she walks in on you beating off. It’s totally cool. Sometimes she even helps you! Like today, when you’re sitting in the living room beating off to porn on her laptop. She comes into the living room after taking a shower and sits down on the ottoman in front of you. You keep stroking as she yaps on about what she should make for dinner. Briefly, she takes the laptop and checks what you’ve been watching, casually asking you to bookmark the video for her to watch later. You’re not really sure why she keeps hanging around but once she takes off her towel to dry her hair, you start to beat it faster. Lucky for you, she’s in the giving mood as she asks if she can suck your cock. You’re not one to turn down such an offer so your sister gets on her knees and goes to town. Every so often she tries to talk, but her mouth is crammed with cock. She pops your cock from her mouth to ask about the upcoming dance, family vacation, whatever, in between long strokes into her tight and talented throat. You watch your sister slurp and worship your cock, building you up to an intense orgasm. She makes you promise not to cum on her face this time, “I don’t wanna have to take another shower!” and you happily oblige, unloading a thick load onto her waiting tongue. She slurps it all down before laying back and quickly masturbating, licking her own juices from her fingers before standing. “Maybe I’ll just make pasta and sauce?” she muses, “yeah, that’ll be easier. Alright, later!”

“They said, “Yes, we’ve got you. You’re the centre aircraft.” I said that’s correct. They then said to me, “Who are the other two aircraft,” and I said, “I don’t know. I was hoping you would tell me, because I didn’t think there was anyone up here. “They said, “Well there shouldn’t be, and they certainly shouldn’t be that close to you.” Making headlines in December 1954 is the now infamous ‘Sea Fury’ encounter. On August 31st, 1954, Lieutenant J.A. O’Farrell was returning to Royal Australian Navy Air Station Nowra after flying across the country in a Sea Fury Aircraft. At about 7:10pm while near Goulbourn, NSW, O’Farrell saw a bright light approaching at speed almost head on. It crossed in front of his aircraft taking up position on his port beam, where it appeared to orbit. A second ‘bright light’ was seen at nine o’clock, passing about a mile in from the Sea Fury before turning in the position where the first light was observed. According to the pilot, the crossing speeds of the lights were the fastest he’d ever seen. He was flying at about 400km/h. Radar operator at Nowra base Petty Officer Keith Jessop confirmed the presence of two objects near the Sea Fury on the G.C.I. remote display. The two lights reformed at nine o’clock before disappearing on a north-easterly heading. O’Farrell could only make out “a vague shape with the white light situated centrally on top.” The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time wrote that O’Farrell was “an entirely credible witness” and that he “was visibly ‘shaken’ by his experience, but remains adamant that he saw these objects” “These two aircraft came in quite close to me and I could really see the dark mass and that they were quite big, but I couldn’t make out any other lights or any other form of an aircraft. With that they took off and headed off to the north east at great speed.” –J.A. ‘Seamus’ O’Farrell. During his 1973 visit to Australia, Dr. Josef Allen Hynek was able to interview the pilot involved in this now famous incident. Talking to UFO researcher Bill Chalker about the interview, O’Farrell stated, “The interesting thing he said was that all of these sightings had been made by professional people in aviation. By that he meant they were military pilots, military aircrew, civil aviation operators, air traffic controllers, and the like, or airline pilots. These were the ones he was now (1973) going around meeting the people themselves and investigating. All the others he had written off and had been able to explain down to some other phenomena. It came to the point where he said, “Your sighting cannot be explained away.” And he left it at that. To this day I wouldn’t know where it came from or where it went. “Later the guy who became the chief Defence scientist, John Farrands, was very interested in it too, and he had done a lot of early investigations in most of the reports when he was chief defence scientist and in the period just before he became chief defence scientist. He had a talk with me. I was a friend of his. I used to meet with him at lunch. He went over it in great detail. He knew it all. He agreed it was something that couldn’t be refuted. No matter how hard they tried, and they tried very hard to knock it all back. They checked everything from medical, down to when was the last time I had had a drink…” To this day, the ‘Sea Fury’ Incident remains one of the best unexplained radar visual UFO cases on record in Australia. Sources:

I was just talking with a friend earlier this week about how much I miss Howard Stern. See, I used to wake up to his voice each and every morning while we were living together before he left me for that bitch Beth Ostrosky before he made the move to satellite radio, which, to this day, I do not have. As it stands, it’s literally been years since I’ve heard Howard’s show. And I miss Stern all the more now that I’ve gotten to listen to the interview he did with Lars Ulrich this past Tuesday. It’s a great interview, even if it requires you to ignore Stern’s over-appraisal of Ulrich’s drumming skills. (The funniest part of The New York Times‘ review of yesterday’s Big Four show: “Rhythmically, [Slayer] swung, unlike Metallica, whose rhythm often grew unstable and plodding.”] There’s lots of juicy gossip in here, including how Ulrich is self-taught (shocking!) and had to take drum lessons for six months in-between Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning, how he stole Dave Mustaine’s woman, how his wife left him, and how Hetfield isn’t exactly a social animal. Bonus: the great Richard Christy (Charred Walls of the Damned, Death, Iced Earth) — a drummer with, like, a gajillion times more skill than Ulrich — even gets to chime in. Here’s part one… …and you can listen to the rest after the jump. -AR Thanks to Walker W. for the tip! Please check out this documentary to show your appreciation.

694 S.W.2d 299 (1985) STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Gary Michael PARTON, Appellee. Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville. July 22, 1985. *300 Raymond S. Leathers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant; W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., Nashville, of counsel. Edward Nethery, Ray E. Cate, Knoxville, for appellee. OPINION FONES, Justice. Defendant was convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. The only issue in this Court is whether evidence of a similar prior criminal act was properly admitted at trial. Defendant, Gary Parton, was twenty-one years of age at the time of the alleged offense, had attended a slow-learning school and was educated to approximately the tenth grade level. The alleged victim, Doug Case, was seven years of age at the time he says he was anally raped by defendant. He testified that the crime occurred after Christmas in 1979, "or 1980, the first of January." The alleged victim of the prior criminal act was Eddie Abbott. He was also seven years of age at the time defendant was said to have anally raped him. He testified that the act occurred the first week in December, 1979. Neither Case nor Abbott reported the alleged offenses until August 1980. The indictment charged defendant with aggravated rape occurring between December 1979 and April 1, 1980. Defendant and the two alleged victims lived in the same neighborhood. Defendant acknowledged that he often played with them and with other neighborhood children their age. Doug Case testified that defendant was going hunting with a BB gun and that he asked defendant for permission to accompany him; that when they got in the woods, defendant held the gun to his head, ordered him to pull down his pants, lie on the ground, and anally penetrated him. Abbott testified on direct examination that he warned Case not to go into the woods with defendant, but Case did not heed his warning; that he followed their tracks in the snow and came upon Case and defendant in the woods in time to see defendant withdrawing from anal penetration and attempting to put his penis into Case's mouth; that about that time defendant saw Abbott and began shooting at him with the BB gun; that he and Case fled from defendant and as they were coming out of the woods, Case's mother and Abbott's father drove up; that Case told him not to tell their parents because defendant had threatened to kill Case and his parents and burn their home, if he told about the incident. Defendant testified that in October or November 1979, he went into the woods one day to check his muskrat traps; that Case and Abbott followed him; but he denied that he sexually assaulted either of them on that occasion or on any other occasion, and denied that he had ever owned or used a BB gun or a pellet gun. Defendant was not asked the direct question whether he went into the woods with Case and was later followed by Abbott during the time period testified to by Case or during the time period stated in the indictment, but the clear implication of his testimony is that he was only in the woods with Case and Abbott, or either one of them, on one occasion, and that was in October or November. After defendant closed his proof, the State moved for permission to call Abbott as a rebuttal witness to testify that in the first week of December 1979, he had gone into the woods with defendant where he was anally assaulted, threatened with a knife and with the murder of his parents and himself, and the burning of their home, if he told of the assault. The State had asked defendant on cross examination, over defendant's objection, if he had "any contact with Eddie Abbott down in the woods that would cause him to go to the aid of his friend, Douggie?" and received a negative response. The State insisted at trial that that question and answer put defendant's credibility at issue and made the alleged assault on Abbott relevant in rebuttal and that the prior crime was also admissible to show identity, modus operandi, and to corroborate or explain why Abbott warned *301 Case not to go into the woods with defendant, and why he went into the woods looking for them. The trial judge overruled defendant's objections and allowed Abbott to testify as related above. A majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals held that the evidence was improperly admitted. It rejected the State's contention that the prior crime was relevant to matters actually in issue in the case on trial, to-wit: identity, intent and common plan or scheme. The State had abandoned the untenable contention that the prior crime was admissible for impeachment purposes, and in this Court, has abandoned the equally untenable position that identity was a viable contested issue that rendered the alleged prior crime admissible. See Warren v. State, 178 Tenn. 157, 156 S.W.2d 416 (1941). A member of the Court of Criminal Appeals panel dissented. The dissent was based upon an interpretation of defendant's testimony as admitting "that he had been in the woods with Douggie and Eddie on the day in question," and that his denial of any wrongdoing, "gave his presence there a totally innocent cast, and thereby made crucial the evidence now in question." The State has adopted that interpretation of the evidence. We have read the testimony carefully and we do not agree that the defendant admitted being in the woods with Case or Abbott, or both, at any time within the period of time testified to by Case and Abbott or charged in the indictment. Both the dissenting opinion and the State's brief assert that defendant testified that on the day in question he went into the woods to check his muskrat traps and Case and Abbott followed him. On direct examination, defendant testified as follows: Q Do you remember when you were arrested on these charges, Gary? About when they arrested you? A Yeah. Q How long had it been before your arrest, that you had seen Douggie, that you can remember? A Well, I went down, stopped down `er next to the woods, I went to check my traps, and they started following me. I just let them follow me. Q Well, when was this? A This was October, November of '79. Q What kind of traps did you have down in the woods? A I got a big rat traps, mushrat (sic) traps. Q And what do you trap with your traps? A Well, I catch mushrats (sic), whatever. Q And what do you do with them when you catch them? A Well, my next-door neighbor, we used to go out and catch them, and he would give us $5.00 for them, the fur on them. Approximately eight months expired before Doug Case's mother extracted from him the story of the alleged anal rape. The substance of the additional testimony of defendant given at trial was that he had been fishing at the "Tunnells" with Case and Abbott on a few occasions when twenty or more people had been present, but had not been in the woods with either of them at any time other than the one occasion in October or November 1979, and he denied any wrongful act at that time or any other time. In our opinion, it is inescapable on this record that defendant denied being in the woods with the two alleged victims on any occasion within the time frame that the State's evidence or the indictment asserted this crime occurred, or that the alleged assault on Abbott occurred. Also, both the dissent and the State's brief place significant emphasis on their assumption that the evidence supports the conclusion that defendant invited or lured Doug Case into the woods on the occasion of the alleged crime, and that the alleged prior crime supports defendant's motive for doing so. Case testified on direct examination as follows: *302 Q Had you ever been to the woods with Gary before, Doug? A No, sir. Q And who asked you to go to the woods? A I asked him. Q All right. Why did you go to the woods? A Because I thought it was fun to go hunting, and I haven't never been before. When the alleged victim testifies unequivocally that he asked to accompany the defendant into the woods, we think it inappropriate to find that the evidence shows the defendant lured the victim into the woods. The general rules which govern this case were recently stated in Bunch v. State, 605 S.W.2d 227, 229-230 (Tenn. 1980): It is well established, of course, that in a criminal trial evidence that the defendant has committed some other crime wholly independent of that for which he is charged, even though it is a crime of the same character, is usually not admissible because it is irrelevant. Mays v. State, 145 Tenn. 118, 238 S.W. 1096 (1921); Lee v. State, 194 Tenn. 652, 254 S.W.2d 747 (1953). Moreover, because of the obvious prejudice of such evidence to the defendant its admission often constitutes prejudicial error, requiring the reversal of a conviction. Gray v. State, 191 Tenn. 526, 235 S.W.2d 20 (1950). However, if evidence that the defendant has committed a crime separate and distinct from the one on trial, is relevant to some matter actually in issue in the case on trial and if its probative value as evidence of such matter in issue is not outweighed by its prejudicial effect upon the defendant, then such evidence may be properly admitted. On occasions, evidence of crimes other than that on trial has been admitted as being relevant to such issues on trial as motive of the defendant, intent of the defendant, the identity of the defendant, the absence of mistake or accident if that is a defense, and, rarely, the existence of a larger continuing plan, scheme, or conspiracy of which the crime on trial is a part. Collard v. State, Tenn., 526 S.W.2d 112 (1975); Carroll v. State, 212 Tenn. 464, 370 S.W.2d 523 (1963); Rule 404(b), Federal Rules of Evidence; Rule 404, Uniform Rules of Evidence; McCormick on Evidence § 157 (1954). In Harris v. State, 189 Tenn. 635, 227 S.W.2d 8 (1950), this Court stressed that evidence that the defendant had committed a crime other than that on trial was not admissible unless such evidence tended directly to prove his guilt of the offense with which he was charged and that to render such evidence of another crime relevant to the case on trial, its purpose and its effect must be to show more than the mere fact that the defendant is the kind of person who would not scruple to commit the kind of offense with which he is charged and that probative force could not be accorded to the mere fact that the defendant, either prior or subsequent to the commission of the offense on trial, had committed another like crime. We note, too, that evidence that the defendant committed another crime is admissible only if the ground for relevance is actually being contested in the case on trial; ... . The State's evidence was that the alleged victim, Doug Case, went into the woods at his own request because he wanted to go hunting with defendant, sometime between Christmas and early January 1980, where he was anally raped at BB gun point, and threatened with the dire consequences if the crime was reported. The defendant's evidence was that he did not go into the woods with Case during the time period alleged, and that on the only occasion he was in the woods with Case, no wrongful act was committed. In short, defendant based his defense on a denial that he was in the woods with Case at the time alleged and a denial that he committed any criminal offense against Doug Case at any time or place. The State and the dissenting opinion say that the dispute was whether the defendant *303 lured Doug Case into the woods for a criminal purpose and carried out that intent, or whether he went to check his traps and Doug and Eddie followed him of their own volition, and nothing happened. They contend that in that context the evidence of the prior assault on Eddie was relevant to show defendant's motive in inviting Doug to go with him and to establish a common scheme or plan and tend to prove what he did to Doug "once he lured him into the woods." As we have noted, the evidence affirmatively established that Doug Case asked to accompany defendant into the woods. In that state of the record, defendant's motive for luring Doug into the woods was not relevant to this trial and thus the common scheme or plan exception was not available to support the admissibility of Abbott's rebuttal testimony. The common scheme or plan exception is most often a vehicle for admitting other nearly identical crimes when the identity of the defendant is in issue. See Harris v. State, 189 Tenn. 635, 227 S.W.2d 8 (1950); Wrather v. State, 179 Tenn. 666, 169 S.W.2d 854 (1943); Young v. State, 566 S.W.2d 895 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1978); e.g. Warren v. State, supra. As heretofore noted, the State no longer contends that identity was an issue in this case. Intent is not an element to be proved in making out the offense of aggravated rape and the defense interposed opened no door involving intent. When the presence or absence of a particular intent which is necessary to constitute the crime charged is a contested issue, and evidence of a prior crime tends to show that intent, it may render the prior crime admissible. Mays v. State, 145 Tenn. 118, 141, 238 S.W. 1096, 1103 (1921). Such is not the case here. The State is confusing intent and motive with propensity and disposition to commit a crime. Evidence of other offenses is not admissible for the purpose of showing propensity or disposition on the part of the defendant to commit the crime for which he is on trial. Young v. State, supra; United States v. Woods, 484 F.2d 127, 134 (4th Cir.1973), cert. denied 415 U.S. 979, 94 S.Ct. 1566, 39 L.Ed.2d 875 (1974). See also Bunch v. State, supra at 229. If Abbott's rebuttal testimony with respect to the alleged prior crime had been directly relevant to an issue at trial that would have rendered such testimony admissible, the trial judge should have submitted the proof of the alleged prior crime to two additional tests before admitting it in evidence for the jury to hear. First he should have heard the evidence out of the presence of the jury for the purpose of determining whether or not the proof of commission of the prior crime and defendant's connection therewith met the clear and convincing test mandated in Wrather v. State, supra. If the proof had cleared that hurdle then the final test should have been whether or not its prejudicial effect outweighed its probative value. See Bunch v. State, supra. The record must show affirmative compliance with these two requirements as a mandatory pre-requisite for review by the appellate courts. The record in this case is silent of any indication whatever that the trial judge made either of these determinations. The judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals is affirmed for the reasons stated herein, and this case is remanded to the Criminal Court of Knox County for a new trial. Costs are adjudged against the State. COOPER, C.J., and BROCK, HARBISON and DROWOTA, JJ., concur.

Although Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith is used to playing behind big stars, he certainly has held his own against the league’s finest players. On a recent episode of “Knuckleheads” with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles, Smith revealed that he’s beaten several All-Stars 1-on-1: “I beat Melo (Carmelo Anthony) 1-on-1, Chauncey (Chauncey Billups), I used to beat C.P. (Chris Paul) because he was just too small.” Yet, perhaps the most skilled player Smith has beaten is Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving. While Irving likely has all the tricks in his bag, Smith studied and topped the former Cavs star: “I beat Kyrie. Kyrie good, but it’s a certain way you gotta play Kyrie. After playing with him and seeing him play other people 1-on-1, I studied him.” Smith, 33, is still away from the team due to a lack of competitiveness and communication with the front office. However, the 2016 champion revealed that he felt disrespected by the organization for the way they treated him as both sides eventually parted ways. Before he got exiled, the veteran was putting up a career-low 6.7 points on 34 percent shooting from the field this season. Although the Cavs were aiming to fight for a playoff spot before the year started, the team quickly changed directions after an injury to Kevin Love and the firing of head coach Tyronn Lue. Smith never intended to play for a lottery team or behind the likes of several youngsters.

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Author Topic: Is Homosexual Marriage Next (Read 12036 times) Listen to me. We can all beat around the bush about the hundreds of different Protestant sects preaching different things about Homosexual marriage, but one Church stands with one voice against it. The Roman catholic Church. The move toward Homosexual marriages is just another part of the schisms which the Protestant Church started long ago. The One true holy Roman Catholic Church has been at the forefront of doing the right thing. I asked before, who is at the forefront of fighting against abortions but no one wanted to speak the truth? Is it the protestants? No, it is the Roman Catholics. Who is at the forefront of feeding the poor? Is it the Protestant Church? No, it's the one true holy Roman Catholic Church. And the same with missions and starting new Churches in South America, Africa, Russia. So as I said, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the one holy Roman Cathoklic Church is at the forefront of helping christians understand that we cannot allow these Protestant Church christians allowing homosexual marriages to spread and become law. Homosexual marriage is a sin against the Church and God. Only one Church speaks with one voice against it. While you have Protestants in all denominations saying it's not really a bad thing. I think it's been made clear we cannot respect false prophets, thieves, murders, rapists, adulterers or homosexuals. No, we cannot. God doesn't want anyone to respect that, no matter how you attempt to twist the scenario. Quote Is King David not worthy of our respect because he was a lustful perve? (and a murder to boot) Was, not remained one. Tony already explained that. I'll refresh the memory."Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." I Corinthians 6:9-11 See where God says, "And such were some of you: but ye are washed." In other words, they were, but not anymore. Likewise, if you are a Prostitute still, why would I have respect for you when God condemns you? If you are a former prostitute, of course I will respect you. Likewise former thieves or homosexuals. But there is no such thing as a homosexual Christian. You are either one or the other. Quote Why do homosexuals deserve a special kind of 'disrespect' They don't. They deserve the same disrespect God shows in that passage I quoted saying neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals), Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners. God says of all of them, they shall not inherit the kingdom of God. You can call that a special kind of disrespect or you can call it the truth. I call it the word of truth. I think it's been made clear we cannot respect false prophets, thieves, murders, rapists, adulterers or homosexuals. No, we cannot. God doesn't want anyone to respect that, no matter how you attempt to twist the scenario. I completely agree. This is about sin, not disrespecting anyone. To use his argument, we would have to respect terrorists, respect abortionists and respect mass murderers. People always attempt to broaden the argument when they have no biblical justification for their beliefs. This isn't about individuals, it's about God's laws and if we are going to be obedient to them or fall prey to the world's way of thinking? I for one choose God's word.

Q: How do I store hundreds of enums so they can be accessed efficiently? Let's say I have a public enum, each of which has multiple associated values. I currently have them stored as such: public enum foo { case A case B case C case ... //goes on for hundreds of enums } To access a value, I do a linear search using a switch statement as such (within the enum): func getNumber() -> Int { //multiple functions just like this for each A, B, C... switch self { case .A: return 102 //numbers are arbitrary case .B: return 438 case .C: return 293 case ... //and so on } } func getName() -> String { switch self { case .A: return "Apple" //names are arbitrary as well... case .B: return "Banana" case .C: return "Cherry" case ... } } func ... However, to access something at the bottom of the list, I have to iterate through every single value of the enum, which has to be done multiple times a second. I feel as if this is very inefficient. Ideally, I'd like to be able to: Store multiple elements, each with their own individual values. Each element should have multiple similar variables (name, weight, size, etc.) associated with it, just with different values for each. Be able to access each enum without having to iterate through a switch statement. For example, if a user inputs foo.B.number(), ideally it would return "438" without having to go through each element. NOT subject to change (B's "number" will never be modified, etc.). These values are FINAL. Be able to access a certain enum with a String. For example, if "Apple" is associated with foo's "A", then a function as such can be called: func getFoo(s:String) -> foo { ... } getFoo(s:"Apple") //should return A What could I do to store and access these? A: The most efficient way to do this in swift is to use a dictionary and tuple (tuples group data together, dictionaries are a great way to store lots of data and find it efficiently) public enum Foo { case A, B, C, D, E, F //and on } let dictionary: [Foo: (number: Int, name: String)] = [ .A: (102,"Apple") ] // then call the values let favoriteFruitOfA = dictionary[.A].name however you might want to ditch the enum if you have hundreds of values. enums are great for declaring exhaustive list of discrete values e.g. north, south, east , west. Furthermore, enum declares a type which is why it's capitalized, which makes me think you're trying to use the enum to declare a property and shouldn't be using it. cheers.

Equestrian at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping The individual jumping event, part of the equestrian program at the 2000 Summer Olympics, was held from 25 to 27 September 2000 at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre 45 miles outside of Sydney, Australia. Like all other equestrian events, the jumping competition was mixed gender, with both male and female athletes competing in the same division. Medalists Results Qualification round Round 1 Held Monday, 25 September 2000 . The two riders who were eliminated during the round automatically received a score 20 points higher than the highest other score and continued to compete in the second round. Round 2 The second qualifying round was also the first team round. Held Thursday, 28 September 2000. Round 3 The third individual qualifier was also the second team round. All athletes competed individually regardless of their team's qualification. 45 pairs advanced to the final round. Only three pairs from any single NOC could advance. This led to four pairs being eliminated. Held Thursday, 28 September 2000. Final round Round A All scores were reset to zero after the third qualifying round. Held Sunday, 1 October 2000. The top 20 riders and ties advanced to Round B of the finals. Round B The 12-way tie for 20th-place resulted in 31 pairs advancing to the second round of the final. A jump-off was required to break the ties for the medals. Medal jump-off References Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20060622162855/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Individual jumping

Q: How to get data from DialogFragment to a Fragment? Imagine, I have FragmentA from which I startDialogFragment (there are EditText in box). How to can I get back the value from the EditText to FragmentA? I try to make something like this, and this but I was not successful. A: The Fragment.onActivityResult() method is useful in this situation. It takes getTargetRequestCode(), which is a code you set up between fragments so they can be identified. In addition, it takes a request code, normally just 0 if the code worked well, and then an Intent, which you can attach a string too, like so Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.putExtra("STRING_RESULT", str); Also, the setTargetFragment(Fragment, requestCode) should be used in the fragment that the result is being sent from to identify it. Overall, you would have code in the requesting fragment that looks like this: FragmentManager fm = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager(); DialogFragment dialogFragment = new DialogFragment(); dialogFragment.setTargetFragment(this, REQUEST_CODE); dialogFragment.show(); The class to send data (the DialogFragment) would use this Fragment we just defined to send the data: private void sendResult(int REQUEST_CODE) { Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.putStringExtra(EDIT_TEXT_BUNDLE_KEY, editTextString); getTargetFragment().onActivityResult( getTargetRequestCode(), REQUEST_CODE, intent); } To receive the data, we use this type of class in the Fragment which initially started the DialogFragment: public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { // Make sure fragment codes match up if (requestCode == DialogFragment.REQUEST_CODE) { String editTextString = data.getStringExtra( DialogFragment.EDIT_TEXT_BUNDLE_KEY); At this point, you have the string from your EditText from the DialogFragment in the parent fragment. Just use the sendResult(int) method in your TextChangeListener() anonymous class so that the text is sent when you need it. A: Assume a situation that you are uploading some file to server , on clicking of upload button a dialog should open,prompting for title and optional tag.And the dialog itself containing 2 buttons say cancel and continue. make the UI as you wish by using layout xml file. then create one class that extending DialogFragment. inflate the layout and initialize views inside onCreateView() method. Inside that class create one interface public interface uploadDialogInterface { public void senddata(String title, String tag); } uploadDialogInterface interfaceObj; String title=""; String tag=" "; And the important thing is you need to override onAttach() method @Override public void onAttach(Context context) { super.onAttach(context); this.context=context; interfaceObj= (uploadDialogInterface) getTargetFragment(); } And in the on Button click call the interface method like @Override public void onClick(View v) { int id=v.getId(); if(id== R.id.vB_fud_cancel) { dismiss(); } else if(id== R.id.vB_fud_upload) { title=mVideotitle.getText().toString(); tag=mOptionaltag.getText().toString(); if(mVideotitle.getText().toString().isEmpty()) { Snackbar.make(mVideotitle,"Please enter the video title", Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); }else { interfaceObj.senddata(title,tag); dismiss(); } } } And inside the Fragment or activity from which you are launching the dialog should contain setTargetFragment attribute. private void callUploadDialog() { UploadDialogFragment fragment = new UploadDialogFragment(); fragment.setTargetFragment(this, 0); FragmentManager manager = getFragmentManager(); FragmentTransaction ft = manager.beginTransaction(); ft.setCustomAnimations(R.anim.fade_in, R.anim.fade_in); fragment.show(ft, "UploadDialogFragment"); fragment.setCancelable(false); } And finally you should implement the interface (that was declared inside the dialog fragment) and override the method @Override public void senddata(String title,String optionaltag) { this.videoTitle=title; this.optionalTag=optionaltag; } I think this post will be helpful for those who are using dialog fragment for the first time . I was struggled to find the solution . And hopefully this will solve someone's problem in the future. (Sorry for the language)

Protesters at the Occupy Toronto camp have gathered in the hundreds to defy a court sanctioned eviction notice that says they must end their five-week long encampment at a downtown park. Bylaw officers delivered a fresh batch of eviction notices to the encampment after Superior Court Justice David Brown’s ruling, issued just after 9 a.m. on Monday, upheld eviction notices issued by the city last week. Protesters have been camping at St. James Park since Oct. 15, and a few took down their tents upon news of the court ruling. The rest hunkered down, promising to resist using non-violent tactics, such as forming a human chain and going limp, if police try to force them out. "Our right to carry out this protest, which is a global movement, is being threatened for a simple municipal bylaw," said protester Sakura Saunders. "We’re going to continue to be here and to transform this movement." Some protesters have built barricades around structures like their makeshift library, and chained themselves in. Protester Stefonknee Wolscht told reporters that others are planning a hunger strike. Labour unions marched to the park in solidarity on Monday night, where the CBC's Jeff Semple reports hundreds of embolded protesters are holding an evening rally. If anything, reports Semple, those left have been emboldened by the eviction notices. Church will not offer refuge to protesters Some Occupy Toronto protesters maintain that the city's eviction notice does not apply to the parkland alongside St. James cathedral. But Rev. Douglas Stoute reiterated in a press conference on Monday that, although the church has a clear title to a portion of the park, they will not be offering a safe haven to protesters. "The city and the church have worked together for over 50 years, and we're working together today," said Stoute. "We're going to follow the court's rule and we ask and expect [the protesters] to do the same." Stoute added that the eviction should not be an end, but rather a new chapter in the discussion about poverty and social inequality. Although the church community is "sympathetic" to the aims of Occupy Toronto, he stressed that the demonstration is not an extension of the Cathedral's program. Doug Johnson-Hatlam, a street pastor, expressed concern Monday night about what will happen to the homeless who have been part of the protest. "The poorest of the poor are not only going to have a powerful political movement that they've been a part of squashed, but they're also going to be scattered, according to the city plans, to the four corners of the city," Hatlam said. Judge rules city's trespass order "constitutionally valid" Protesters had argued in court they had a constitutional right to camp in the park, which is located near the corner of King Street East and Church Street. However, Mayor Rob Ford and his allies on Toronto city council have said occupiers have had their say and that neighbours and businesses in the area want the protesters to leave. In submissions to the court, city officials have also pointed to damage to park grounds caused by the encampment and the need to prepare the park for winter. Protesters responded by saying that they would cooperate with the winterization of the park. Protesters had argued the encampment was essential to ensuring their right to expression guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Justice Brown, however, rejected this argument in his ruling and said the city's trespass order was "constitutionally valid." "Although proclaiming a message of participatory democracy, the evidence, unfortunately, reveals that the protesters did not practise what they were preaching when they decided to occupy the park. Specifically, they did not ask those who live and work around the park or those who use the park, or their civic representatives, what they would think if the park was turned into a tent city." "The applicants have failed in their onus to establish that the city actions in any way offend their charter rights. They have failed to demonstrate the camping in the tents is in any way an expression or that they are needed or used to express any ideas. Their act of camping out and effectively taking over a public park is not protected under Section 2." The full text of the judge's ruling is available by clicking here. P.O.V. Do you agree with the judge's decision? Have your say here. City mum on consequences for defiant protesters In a press conference held after the judge's ruling was released on Monday, Ford said it was time for occupiers to leave the park. "The city has worked to balance people's right to protest with public safety," Ford said. "However, this unauthorized use of a city park has interfered with the rights local residents have to the quiet enjoyment of their parks and homes and has negatively affected many area businesses." City manager Joe Pennachetti said city staff will be made available to help protesters pack up their camp. Both Ford and Pennachetti refused to directly answer reporters' questions about what would happen if protesters refuse to leave. "I am asking the protesters to comply with this ruling and leave peacefully," said Ford. CBC's Toronto city hall reporter Jamie Strashin said the ruling means the city has the legal authority to immediately remove the tents, but said it is unlikely this will happen. He said there is a debate going on amongst members of city council. Some feel the park should be cleared right away, while others feel the dialogue between protesters and city officials should continue. As of noon Monday, the city had no stated plan of action should the protesters refuse to leave, Strashin reported. The Toronto protest is part of a global Occupy movement that has staged similar encampments and peaceful protests in other cities. The movement has a handful of stated political goals, among them a need to address economic inequality.

1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and system for thin film deposition, and more particularly to a method and system for improving the uniformity of metal layers formed from metal-carbonyl precursors. 2. Description of Related Art The introduction of copper (Cu) metal into multilayer metallization schemes for manufacturing integrated circuits can necessitate the use of diffusion barriers/liners to promote adhesion and growth of the Cu layers and to prevent diffusion of Cu into the dielectric materials. Barriers/liners that are deposited onto dielectric materials can include refractive materials, such as tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo), and tantalum (Ta), that are non-reactive and immiscible in Cu, and can offer low electrical resistivity. Current integration schemes that integrate Cu metallization and dielectric materials can require barrier/liner deposition processes at substrate temperature between about 400° C. and about 500° C., or lower. For example, Cu integration schemes for technology nodes less than or equal to 130 nm can utilize a low dielectric constant (low-k) inter-level dielectric, followed by a physical vapor deposition (PVD) Ta layer or a TaN/Ta layer, followed by a PVD Cu seed layer, and an electro-chemical deposition (ECD) Cu fill. Generally, Ta layers are chosen for their adhesion properties (i.e., their ability to adhere on low-k films), and Ta/TaN layers are generally chosen for their barrier properties (i.e., their ability to prevent Cu diffusion into the low-k film). As described above, significant effort has been devoted to the study and implementation of thin transition metal layers as Cu diffusion barriers, these studies including such materials as chromium, tantalum, molybdenum and tungsten. Each of these materials exhibits low miscibility in Cu. More recently, other materials, such as ruthenium (Ru) and rhodium (Rh), have been identified as potential barrier layers since they are expected to behave similarly to conventional refractory metals. However, the use of Ru or Rh can permit the use of only one barrier layer, as opposed to two layers, such as Ta/TaN. This observation is due to the adhesive and barrier properties of these materials. For example, one Ru layer can replace the Ta/TaN barrier layer. Moreover, current research is finding that the one Ru layer can further replace the Cu seed layer, and bulk Cu fill can proceed directly following Ru deposition. This observation is due to good adhesion between the Cu and the Ru layers. Conventionally, Ru layers can be formed by thermally decomposing a ruthenium-containing precursor, such as a ruthenium carbonyl precursor, in a thermal chemical vapor deposition (TCVD) process. Material properties of Ru layers that are deposited by thermal decomposition of ruthenium carbonyl precursors (e.g., Ru3(CO)12) can deteriorate when the substrate temperature is lowered to below about 400° C. As a result, an increase in the (electrical) resistivity of the Ru layers and poor surface morphology (e.g., the formation of nodules) at low deposition temperatures has been attributed to increased incorporation of reaction by-products into the thermally deposited Ru layers. Both effects can be explained by a reduced carbon monoxide (CO) desorption rate from the thermal decomposition of the ruthenium carbonyl precursor at substrate temperatures below about 400° C. Additionally, the use of metal carbonyls, such as ruthenium carbonyl or rhenium carbonyl, can lead to poor deposition rates due to their low vapor pressure, and the transport issues associated therewith. Overall, the inventors have observed that current deposition systems suffer from such a low rate, making the deposition of such metal films impractical. Furthermore, the inventors have observed that current deposition systems suffer from poor film uniformity.

Arduino NANO for Beginners Arduino NANO for Beginners In this post I will discuss about the detailed introduction of Arduino NANO for Beginners. In the previous post I have discussed about brief introduction of the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA there I have discussed about the Arduino UNO board and Arduino MEGA board, specifications of the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA, microcontroller IC on which Arduino MEGA and Arduino UNO is based, applications of the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA and the programming of the Arduino UNO and MEGA. Introduction to Arduino NANO for Beginners: In this post I will discuss the overview of the Arduino NANO board, pinout of the Arduino NANO, specifications of the Arduino NANO, microcontroller IC on which Arduino NANO is based and finally the comparison of the Arduino UNO and MEGA board with the Arduino NANO board. So sit back, keep reading and enjoy learning. Arduino NANO Board: Arduino NANO is the open-source microcontroller development board based on the ATMEGA328P microcontroller IC. The microcontroller IC on which the Arduino UNO and Arduino NANO is based is usually the same by the way sometimes the difference lies in the package type of the microcontroller IC. Having same microcontroller IC it follows that the crucial specifications of both the Arduino UNO and Arduino NANO are essentially the same. The Arduino NANO is sometimes preferred over the Arduino UNO when there is limitation on the space constraint. Arduino NANO is quite small in size as compared to the Arduino UNO and can easily be mounted on the Breadboard making it useful in Breadboard based prototypes. Arduino NANO has 14 Digital Input / Output pins and 8 analog pins. The Arduino NANO has two additional Analog to Digital converters as compare to the Arduino UNO so that NANO has two additional Analog pins. Arduino NANO has one UART, one Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) computer bus and one Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) computer bus. Arduino UNO also has one UART, one SPI and one I2C interface on board. Out of the 14 digital input / output pins 5 pins are PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) enabled. The discussion on the PWM phenomenon and the peculiar use of these PWM enabled pins will be discussed later in the posts. Some differences that exist between the Arduino UNO and Arduino NANO will be pointed out later in the post. The Arduino NANO looks like the one in the following figure: As can be seen in the image above that the Arduino NANO is quite different from the Arduino UNO. The Arduino NANO has micro USB port with the help of which Arduino NANO can be programmed or monitored. Note that the Arduino UNO has the type B USB connector while the Arduino NANO has a micro USB connector implying that the USB cable required for the programming of Arduino NANO is different. Also note in the image that Arduino NANO has no power jack as was found in the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA. The Arduino NANO can be powered up either through the USB connector or through the Vin pin present on the Arduino NANO board, the discussion on the pin will follow later in the post. Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE): In the post on the Arduino UNO we learned that the Arduino UNO can easily be programmed using the Arduino IDE. The Arduino NANO can also be programmed in the similar way; that is the programming of the Arduino NANO is not different from that of the Arduino UNO however it should be kept in mind that Arduino NANO has different number of pins and different pin configuration. The care should be taken while configuring the Arduino NANO pins. As most of you might have known that in order to program a microcontroller one need to write the code in the editor, and then compile that code in the compiler after which you get the HEX file of that code and later upload that HEX file in the microcontroller IC using another program. In case of Arduino all these steps are performed in single software which is called the Arduino IDE. By integrated Development Environment it means that all the steps that editor, compiler, burner are integrated in the same software. In short Arduino NANO is quite easy to program it is just a matter of few clicks. I will go through in detail about how to write a code and upload it in Arduino NANO later in the post. Note that the Arduino NANO has the micro USB port on it which means that USB cable used for programming the Arduino NANO is different from that of the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA. Arduino NANO Features: Let us now learn some of the common specifications of the Arduino NANO microcontroller development board. Before diving deep into the discussion it is important to keep in mind that the Arduino NANO should be employed in the case when Arduino UNO does not meet the requirements of the project. For example if one needs to design the system that has limited space then he would go for the Arduino NANO to save the space. The space constraint is the only constraint that is kept in mind when selecting the Arduino NANO over the Arduino UNO. One other consideration is the additional Analog pins present on the Arduino NANO as compared to the Arduino UNO. Microcontroller IC: Microchip ATmega328P Operating Voltage: 5 Volts Input Voltage: 5volts. Unlike the Arduino UNO and Arduino MEGA the Arduino NANO should not be supplied with voltage more than 12 volts. Digital I/O Pins: 14 (of which 5 provide PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) output) Analog Input Pins: 8 DC Current per I/O Pin: 20 mA (This is the current that can be sourced or sink into and out of the Input / Output pins) DC Current for 3.3V Pin: 50 mA Flash Memory: 32 KB of which 2 KB used by bootloader SRAM: 2 KB EEPROM: 1 KB Clock Speed: 16 MHz (All the operations are synced by this clock) As can be seen in the specifications that the Arduino UNO and Arduino NANO shares many of the properties. They have same amount of EEPROM and SRAM. The detailed description of each feature is out of the scope of this post but will be discussed in detail later in the next post. Arduino NANO Pinout: Let us now dive into the discussion about the pinout of the Arduino NANO. As described earlier that the Arduino NANO is based on the ATMEGA328P microcontroller IC so it follows that the pinout of the Arduino NANO is simply that of the ATMEGA328P microcontroller but note here that the Arduino NANO has its own nomenclature for its pins and here I will use the nomenclature used by the Arduino for pin reference. As can be seen on the Arduino NANO that there are two headers mounted on board. One header bears the Digital Input / Output pins and the other header bears the Analog input pins and the voltage pins. As pointed out earlier that the Arduino NANO has total 14 digital Input / Output pins. The digital Input / Output pins can receive a digital signal or transfer a digital signal. The pin number D0 named Rx and pin number D1 named Tx are the receive and transmit pins of the UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter) respectively. The pin number 6, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 14 are the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) enabled pins. The discussion about the PWM phenomenon and the application of these pins will be discussed later. Note here that apart from being PWM pins these six pins can also behave like other digital input / output pins. The header on the other side of the Arduino NANO bears the voltage pins and the Analog pins. There are total eight analog pins on this on this header. Unlike Digital pins these pins can just act as Input pins that is these pins can only receive signal and cannot provide signal or voltage, that is why they are called Analog inputs. These analog inputs are actually the inputs of the Analog to Digital Converter inside the ATMEGA 328P microcontroller. These pins can be connected to the output of the analog sensors. The voltage pins on this header are used to power up the Arduino NANO board these pins are also used to deliver power from the Arduino NANO board to other peripheral devices or the sensors attached to the Arduino NANO microcontroller development board. Let us now discuss in detail the digital Input / Output pins, Analog input pins and Voltage pins of the Arduino NANO. Arduino NANO Digital Input / Output Pins: As described in the previous section that the Arduino NANO has total 14 digital input / output pins out of which 6 input / output pins are PWM enabled. Some of these Digital Input / Output pins can also serve as the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) or I2C interface (Inter-Integrated Circuit). The detailed description is shown in the following figure. The function that the digital input / output pins perform depends upon the coding of the Arduino NANO. That is whether the pin number 13, 12, 11 and 10 functions simply as Digital Input / Output or they are used as the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) depends upon the coding that specifies their functionality using particular functions. It is also important to note here that the Digital Input / Output pins are called as Input / Output because either they can be used as Input in which case they are intended to receive the signals form sensor or transducer (digital) or they can be used as Output in which case they drive the actuators such as relays. The functionality of the Digital Input / Output pins as either Input or Output is determined by the code also. It is important to realize here that digital input / output pins can only supply a limited amount of current which is not sufficient to drive the motors or relays therefore we need to use drivers such as stepper motor driver or L298 DC motor driver. I will come to the coding of the Arduino UNO later in this post. Another point worth mentioning is that six of the 14 digital input / output pins are PWM enabled pins that is these pins can provide PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal as output. These PWM pins find applications in which we need to regulate something for example the speed of the motor or brightness of the lamp. The digital input / output pins of the Arduino NANO range from D0 to D13. Arduino NANO Analog Pins: Let us now learn about the Analog pins of the Arduino NANO microcontroller development board. As described earlier in this post that there are total 8 analog pins present on the Arduino NANO which acts as input pins only. Also we learned that these Analog pins are basically the input pins of the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). These analog pins can receive the analog signals delivered by analog sensors such as Light dependent resistor, thermistor etc. The user can collect data from eight different sensors at a time. Notice in the image above that the pin A4 and A5 of the Analog pins portion has added functionality that is they can act as I2C interface. I2C (Inter-Integrated Bus) just like the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) is the computer bus that is it is used to communicate between two peripheral ICs that are enabled with I2C. I2C is the serial communication bus that is it can transfer data one bit at a time. Arduino NANO Vin Pin: Let us now discuss the Vin pins of the Arduino NANO board. The last pin called the Vin pin is used to connect power supply to the Arduino NANO. That is 5 volt battery or power adapter can be connected to the Arduino NANO to deliver power through this pin. As it can be seen in the image that the Arduino NANO has on board voltage regulator which converts the 5volts into 3V3 volts. The other two voltage pins called 5V and 3V3 are output power supply. That is these two pins can be used delivered power to the peripheral ICs or the sensors that are to be connected to the Arduino NANO. With the help of these pins the need of additional power supplies is eliminated. It is important to note here that the Arduino NANO can supply only limited supply of current through these and if connected to the strong load may damage the Arduino NANO development board. Arduino NANO Schematic: Let us now discuss the Vin pins of the Arduino NANO Schematic. Arduino NANO ICSP (In-Circuit Serial Programming): Before concluding the discussion on the Input / Output pins it is worth discussing about the ICSP (In-Circuit Serial Programming) pins that are available on the header on Arduino board as shown in the above image. As the name implies these pins are used to program the microcontroller chip without the need of taking it out of the circuit. Basically these pins are the SPI computer bus pins that are present on the Digital Input / Output headers. They are simply also connected to another header. So these SPI computer bus pins also called ICSP pins here are used to program the microcontroller chip and also used to upload the Bootloader in the new microcontroller chip. The discussion on the Bootloader and how to upload it will be discussed in the next post. Arduino NANO Applications: Before discussing the programming language of the Arduino NANO let us first know the applications of the Arduino NANO for motivation. So basically the Arduino NANO can be used in any system that requires the microcontroller. It is now the most commonly used microcontroller development board that is equally popular among the hobbyists and the engineering students. Some of the embedded systems in which the Arduino can be used are listed below: IR remote based Home Automation System. Bluetooth controlled Home Automation System. IoT enabled Home Automation System. RC car. Mobile lifter. Hurdle Avoiding Vehicle. Wall climbing vehicle. Autonomous vehicle. Robotic arm. Arduino NANO programming language: One of the perks that make Arduino NANO quite popular among the hobbyists and beginners is it’s easy to use programming language and programming. The programming language used by the Arduino NANO is the C++. The Arduino NANO IDE has a well-defined function for each task that is easy to remember. As an example the function that specifies the Arduino NANO digital Input / Output pin to work as input is : pinMode(12,INPUT); Here in this function there are two arguments. First argument is the pin number which we want to make input or output and second argument specifies the property that is input or output to the pin number used. The detailed discussion on programming the Arduino NANO will come later in the next posts. That is all for now I hope this post would be helpful for you. In the next post I will come up with more interesting topics. Till then stay connected, keep reading and enjoy learning. Share this: Related Author: admin I am Kashif Mirza, the founder of ProjectIOT123. I am an Embedded Engineer and working on Embedded Projects since 2003. I have worked on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, PIc Microcontroller, 8051 etc. and have designed both prototypes & industrial projects.

Demetrious Johnson Avoids Surgery After Second Diagnosis Revealed No Hernia There is one hurdle down in making the first ever UFC flyweight title fight after Demetrious Johnson found out he’s avoiding potential surgery for a hernia. The best news was discovered on Monday when Johnson got a second opinion from a different doctor and found out he didn’t have a hernia at all. “Basically, what happened was when I got kicked in the groin I’m assuming, but with my testicles there’s wires that connect to the back of it, and the wires on my left side were pretty severely swollen so my doctor gave me an anti-inflammatory. He checked it out today and he was like you don’t have a hernia, the first doctor who did the search for it he misdiagnosed you for a hernia because you were so swollen down there when he was checking, that’s why he misdiagnosed you with a hernia,” Johnson told MMAWeekly.com after visiting the doctor. While having swollen testicles sounds like no fun at all for any man, Johnson is happy that he avoids going under the knife and only has to take medication for the next couple of weeks while the swelling goes down. “He said take it easy, give it a chance for the swelling to go down. Like when I walk around it’s fine, but when he touched it or aggravated it, it hurts for a little bit,” Johnson revealed. “He said two weeks, the first week you know just relax with it, let it heal, and then maybe next week start doing (training). I’m getting x-rays on my hands on Wednesday because it’s still hurting. Each time I shake somebody’s hand I’m shaking it like a little (expletive) cause I don’t want anybody to touch my fist.” The hand injury could still potentially complicate the title fight with Joseph Benavidez getting a date right now, but for the most part Johnson is still a happy man after talking to his physician on Monday. “I’m just happy I don’t have to get surgery,” Johnson stated. “The fight between me and Joseph (Benavidez), it’s going to happen. I’m not worried about that. I’m worried about my own health first cause when I go into this fight I want to make sure I go in 100-percent instead of going into training camp with a hairline fracture on my hand or whatever.” Knowing that what stands in front of him is the biggest fight of his young career, Johnson doesn’t want to take any serious chances that could see him face Benavidez at 75 or 80-percent. While no fighter goes into a bout without any nagging bumps or bruises, Johnson isn’t willing to rush into the title fight with Benavidez without knowing he’s as close to 100-percent as possible. “Everybody’s like let’s make it happen, UFC 151 which is Sept. 1, and I just want to make sure my body’s ready to go back in there and I can start training full-time again and make it happen. My No. 1 concern is my health because if I’m not healthy, it doesn’t mean anything to me. I need to be healthy first,” said Johnson. The other factor playing a part here is that Johnson doesn’t want to tell the UFC he’s good to go and to set a date for the fight with Benavidez, and then a week or two later he finds out he shouldn’t actually be taking the fight on that timeline. When he gives UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby a date for his return and readiness for the title bout, Johnson wants to make sure he’s actually prepared to face Benavidez on that date. “I’m not trying to be one of those fighters who sets a date for a fight and then oh no he has to have hand surgery,” said Johnson. “I’m making sure everything is 100-percent good to go and then it’s pedal to the metal.” Follow @DamonMartin on Twitter or e-mail Damon Martin. For more UFC News and UFC Rumors, follow MMAWeekly.com on Twitter and Facebook.

Baby Found Covered In Cockroaches, Crawling Across Busy Street PELICAN BAY (CBSDFW.COM) — A 19-month-old baby was found in Pelican Bay on Monday, covered in cockroaches and feces and crawling across a busy street. Pelican Bay Assistant Chief of Police Stephen Combs says a resident was driving northbound in the 1400 block of Sheri Lane on Monday at 3 p.m. when she spotted something. “She spotted something in the roadway,” said Combs. “The closer she got to the object, she realized it was a 19-month-old baby crawling in the middle of the road.” The woman stopped, picked up the child, and immediately took him to the police station. “The baby, when he was brought to the police station, had live cockroaches coming out of his diapers and crawling on his body,” said Combs. “The people that brought him into the police department had to clean out their car because of the live and dead cockroaches. He had feces on his face; he was extremely dirty. It was a pathetic sight.” Around 3:30 pm, the baby’s mother, identified as 23-year-old Tiffany Jenkins, walked into the station and asked if anyone had found her baby. After an investigation, authorities determined that Jenkins was in the yard with her four children, and apparently forgot about the 19-month-old. “When one of them hurt her foot, Miss Jenkins took the other kids into the house but somehow overlooked the 19-month-old baby,” said Combs. “While inside, the baby managed to somehow get out of the yard and crawl down the street. The baby was found some 250 feet away from the home.” Jenkins has been arrested and charged with Endangering a child, a second degree felony. Her husband, who also lives at the residence, was at work at the time of the incident and is not facing charges. Child Protective Services removed the other three children — ages 9 weeks, 3 years, and 5 years — from the home and has placed them with grandparents. Agents with CPS were forced to shake cockroaches and maggots off their clothing when leaving the residence, according to Combs.

(I still don’t know all those short cut keys.) But it’s still fun to watch the “X” generation try to figure out a stalling or rough running problem without a laptop. They’d freak out if they saw how we use to find air conditioning leaks with a bottle of propane and an open flame, or using a growler to check a generator. Yea, things were different back then. Nothing like the electronic world we live in today. In those days, mechanics used the procedures that were available, even if they seemed a bit crude. We didn’t have all these fancy, schmassy sensors to deal with. A piece of heater hose held to ones ear was all you needed to find a loose rocker. One thing is for sure, an older tech has been around the block a few times. Just the other day a 79 Bronco came in and the owner wanted to get the A/C working again. Just a bad expansion valve was all. This thing was jacked a mile high with huge knobby tires. The younger guys didn’t want any part of it (no computer), so … I got handed the keys. Now for a guy my age to climb up there, it did take a bit of an effort. I ain’t no spring chicken, you know. First off I had to stand on an upside down milk crate just to get one foot on the bumper. Then climb up and do the old superman spread over the fender so I could reach all the way back to the firewall where the expansion valve was, and then… not to make it even more difficult, I had to get my head in just the right position so I could look through my bifocals. I’ve got the wrenches, the flashlight, and a couple of shop rags… and me “planking" this old truck trying to get this #$@% expansion valve off. So where’s the advantage in all of this? I don’t know…but there must be one somewhere. Getting down was no picnic either. Those bifocals work two ways you know. If you’re looking down through your glasses that concrete floor looks a bit fuzzy and appears to be a lot closer than it really is. Of course as ya slide back down from this behemoth your belt has to get snagged on something and now you’re flopping around like a fish out of water trying to get unstuck. At least I made it back to terra-firma without having to call over one of the younger guys to guide me back onto the milk crate. Really, there are advantages of being older; it’s just that some things aren’t so noticeable. Like, veteran mechanics probably have all the tools and then some. And, if a car comes in with a floor dimmer switch they know what it is for. In fact most of them will know what the second floor switch was for too. Yea, I know what you’re thinking; most of that stuff is museum pieces these days. Oh don’t worry, all you young wrenches out there, your turn to call today’s cars museum pieces is just a few decades away. These days it takes some training in trade schools to learn this job, and you certainly will learn even more once you’re on the job. But, by far, you learn even more after several years of turning wrenches. From dealing with the technical changes and procedures, customers, the guy in the next bay, your boss, and of course the aches and pains of it all. It’s the old horse shoe story that comes to mind. As one old timer explained it to me, when the farrier is shoeing a horse and he shows you the freshly heated horse shoe he has just fitted, don’t be a fool and pick it up. Like the old timer said to me, “I know better now, it don’t take me long to look at a horse shoe in a different light anymore!” That’s experience talking. Experience is something that only comes with time. I can’t tell you when you’ll have it, but believe me, you’ll know when you’ve got it. Then again, if you’re the type of person who has to pick up that horse shoe a second time… well, you’re either a bit brain dead, or you need a touch more experience. Most mechanics who have been around for 30 or 40 years (or more) have seen the changes from 6 volts to 12, generators to alternators, points and condensers, electronic ignition, and then onto today’s systems of sensors controlling it all. And, yes, the older mechanic has probably worked on every bit of them. Not to say that’s an advantage, but it sure is a lot of experience to say the least. But, as time passes along the old body isn’t what it used to be, and while those younger guys can thrash apart cars a whole lot faster, there’s still one advantage the older mechanic has: retirement isn’t that far away. No more learning all this new stuff, no more trying figure out the latest software, and no more of all this back breaking work. History has proven that change is inevitable, and the old mechanic can now pat the younger techs on the back and tell them, “Have at it fellas. You young guns can take over from here.” Us old wrenches can take advantage of all the senior citizen discounts now, and a few spare parts from the doctor too! Let’s see, a couple of new knees, maybe a hip, oh and some laser surgery for the old eyes. Yep... getting older does have a few advantages after all.

(1) Field of the Invention This invention relates to an outflow prevention device, and more particularly to an outflow prevention device for preventing a refrigerant within an automotive air conditioner from flowing out into a vehicle compartment. (2) Description of the Related Art In automotive air conditioners, CFC-based refrigerants are used as refrigerant for a refrigeration cycle. However, in view of a global environmental problem that chlorofluorocarbons destroy the ozone layer, causing danger of ultraviolet rays harmful to human health radiating through ozone holes onto an earth surface, CFC substitutes as refrigerants are being studied. In recent years, a refrigeration cycle using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant has been drawing attention. The refrigeration cycle using carbon dioxide is basically constituted by devices similar to ones used in a refrigeration cycle using a CFC refrigerant. More specifically, a refrigeration cycle is comprised of a compressor for pressurizing refrigerant up to a supercritical region, a gas cooler for cooling the pressurized refrigerant by heat exchange with the outside air, an expansion device for depressurizing the refrigerant delivered from the gas cooler, and an evaporator for evaporating the depressurized refrigerant by heat exchange with air in a vehicle compartment. Further, in the refrigeration cycle using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, at respective locations downstream of the evaporator, there are arranged an accumulator for storing excess refrigerant, and an internal heat exchanger for cooling the refrigerant cooled by the gas cooler, by refrigerant being sent to the compressor from the accumulator. The compressor, the gas cooler, the expansion device, the accumulator, and the internal heat exchanger, which form the refrigeration cycle, are arranged in an engine room, while the evaporator is arranged in the vehicle compartment. During cooling operation, when refrigerant having become a low-temperature refrigerant by being depressurized in the expansion device is supplied to the evaporator, the evaporator exchanges heat with the air in the vehicle compartment to thereby cool the air. In the refrigeration cycle using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, pressure is much higher than in a refrigeration cycle using a CFC-based refrigerant, and hence component parts used therein are highly pressure-resistant. However, in the evaporator arranged as a heat exchanger in the vehicle compartment, rupture or outflow can occur despite of the highly pressure-resistant design of the evaporator. If carbon dioxide flows out into the vehicle compartment, an oxygen deficiency occurs in the vehicle compartment, which can do harm to passengers.

Extremely bizarre sounding...I think he said he's gonna kick some cat butt...

Q: C#, multicore solr, Lucene, shards, case insensitive "contains" searching, and one giant migraine I am having one heck of a time with my implementation. We have a solr server running. We have 3 cores, and for simplicty let's call them "Members", "Businesses", and "Products" I was attempting to use solrnet, but it does not support sharding. So, I am dreading that I will have to build the url myself. So, I used the admin tool to build a few sample url's for queries when I noticed a problem. Solr does an "equals" not a "contains" and it is case sensitive. I know I'm probably going about this all wrong. So, I've read I need to set the qt param to "dismax", only when I search the member's core only, through the admin tool, I get "undefined field price"....my member doesn't have a price field. My product does though. I need to do the following with my query. Searching across multiple cores (sharding) Case insensitivity Contains word instead of equals word Search multiple fields Declare priority of the fields (Search on on name first, then description, etc) I probably have my query all wrong, but here's what it looks like (servername changed to protect the innocent) Name field is actually a concatonation of the user's first and last name....so I was trying to see if dismax would see if the name contains the word jim (case insensitive). mysolrserver.mydomain.int:8080/solrQA/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=Name:jim&fq=&start=0&rows=10&fl=*%2Cscore&qt=dismax&wt=standard&explainOther=&hl.fl=&shards=mysolrserver.mydomain.int:8080/Members,mysolrserver.mydomain.int:8080/Businesses Any help would be greatly appreciated. A: SolrNet and sharding: did you try the ExtraParams property? Case insensitivity: this is handled by the LowerCaseFilterFactory Contains word: this is handled by the tokenizer, for example the WhitespaceTokenizerFactory. Search multiple fields and boosting: since you're using dismax, see the qf parameter.

The following description relates to identification of trading parties, such as customers, suppliers, shippers, and carriers, that may appear on one or more lists of parties with whom a company should not, for various reasons (e.g., restriction treatises, laws, or regulations) conduct business. Businesses face increasing pressure to provide products to their customers as quickly as possible for the lowest possible cost. For companies that ship products on a very large scale, it can become very difficult to manage and track inventory that is in-transit. International trade brings about even greater pressures and complexities. For example, the transactions may have to be conducted in multiple languages, with multiple currencies, while complying with multiple sets of laws. Cross-border transactions also generally require customs clearance, and each cross-border transaction can often involve many different parties. Various countries also publish, by legislation or regulation, lists of individuals or organizations with which trade may not be legally conducted. These regulations put increased legal responsibilities on parties delivering and receiving products both within a country and across national borders, to know the identities of the parties with whom they are dealing. Failure to comply with a country's requirements could result in penalties and fines, and could possibly bar a company from further trade. Sanctions may also include the denial to a party of the benefit of export licenses, loans, government bonds, or funds. They may also include the restriction of services, such as assistance in the import or export of goods, or the sale of goods to a particular government.

Cosmic Slop #105: LGBT superheroes and the lost art of “Mouse Trapping” With hype over LGBT characters in several upcoming movies, Getintothis’ Shaun Ponsonby asks why we haven’t reached a point where that isn’t a big deal. Before mousetraps were invented, there was a popular pastime amongst poor people called “Mouse Trapping”. Bear in mind this was also before television was invented and people had less to do and they were trying to avoid actually conversing with each other. It was basically a game; the man of the house would place a piece of cheese between his teeth, and stick his face in front of a mouse hole to entice the rodent out, trying not to contract tetanus in the process. When it appeared, the rest of the participants would try to catch the mouse before it ran back into the hole. In fact, I believe that is where the phrase “keep your trap shut” comes from. I don’t know if any of that is true, but it is certainly a good way to introduce the subject of homosexuality into the article. A few weeks ago, there was major hype about Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast remake having the sheer balls to include some homosexualing between antagonist Gaston and his sidekick LeFou. Following that, it was revealed that the upcoming Power Rangers reboot will also feature a bona fide gay character. Sadly, not the Red Ranger, as portrayed by Dacre Montgomery, but Becky G’s Yellow Ranger. On the one hand, it should be a cause to celebrate that there is an openly gay superhero, after decades of watching a closeted Robin follow Batmanaround with a schoolgirl crush. Having said that, Batman and Robin have no super powers, so are they superheroes are just flamboyantly dressed vigilantes? On the other hand, it is a bit dismaying that Hollywood still feels the need to hype gay characters to entice people into the cinema. After all, as much as the character’s sexuality might be important to the character development that Power Rangers was always famous for hardly ever bothering with, it won’t be a central theme to the film. It’s going to be what Power Rangers was always about – kicking the shit out of bad guys, big robot dinosaur thingies, a de facto Wizard of Oz sending teenagers to save the world and very, very bad special effects. As much as I can understand it, truth be told it can feel a little patronising. We have come far enough to have a gay superhero, but not far enough that it isn’t a big deal to have a gay superhero. There is still an aspect to that which makes it feel abnormal. YouTube haven’t been helping with LGBT+ content being blocked in restricted mode. If they were restricting hardcore pornography that would be one thing, but the restriction involves people just referring to same sex relationships. Like it or not, “YouTubers” (*groan*) are considered role models to young people now, despite mainly being a gang of superficial morons. One of them, something called a Connor Franta (me neither, but apparently has over five million subscribers, so he is more famous than most people on television) spoke to the BBCto say; “The only reason I accepted my reality and accepted I was gay was because of online creators who posted all these videos and made me feel like I was less alone and like I was a part of something.” Call me a massive softie bastard, but that is actually quite heart-warming. You never know the effect you are having on people. I am willing to bet that the readers of this column have had their lives changed by my words of wisdom. I mean, you never quite know what is going to trigger depression, and I would hate to think that there parental restrictions would stop young people reading my column and experiencing pure despair for the first time. YouTube tried to clear things up pretty quickly, releasing a statement that said; “Our system sometimes make mistakes in understanding context and nuances when it assesses which videos to make available in Restricted Mode…the system will never be 100 percent perfect, [but]we must and will do a better job”. I may not be mature enough to sit through a funeral without making funny noises at the back of the crematorium, but I am mature enough to understand that change happens over long periods of time. There is a tendency for some people to brush off these things, largely because it doesn’t affect them and they haven’t engaged with the issue being raised. Why should they? They don’t care. I certainly don’t care about their problems. So, LGBT+ people have a certain level of acceptance, but it feels like there is a level of novelty that still exists in society at large. It’s like mousetraps have been invented, but there are still a lot of people wasting their time playing “Mouse Trapping”. NEWSBITES Mariah Carey announced a new movie. What? Because the last one was so great?

Effects of ozone on managed pasture: I. Effects of open-top chambers on microclimate, ozone flux, and plant growth. Open-top chambers (OTC) were established in a field of managed pasture, and environmental parameters were recorded inside and outside to study the influence of OTCs on radiation, air temperature (T(air)), saturation vapour pressure deficit (svpd), and soil water content in relationship to plant growth and yield. Canopy development in OTCs supplied with non-filtered air (NF) and in ambient (AA) plots was followed by measuring leaf area index (LAI). The dry matter yield was determined after three growth periods in each of two consecutive seasons. Boundary layer conductance (g(bw)) and wind speed (u) were measured along a vertical profile, and day-time flux were measured along a vertical profile, and day-time flux of O(3) was estimated throughout the experiment on the basis of a mass balance. The vertical profile of u showed values in the range 1-1.2 m s(-1) at the top of the canopy, and maximum g(bw) was 20-25 mm s(-1). Average reduction in global radiation in OTCs was 25%, and volumetric soil water content was reduced by about 5%. Daily mean T(air) was increased by 1.3 degrees C, mean daily maximum svpd by 0.08 kPa, and the temperature sum (degree days with base temperature of +5 degrees C) by 12%. Fluctuations in the difference in daily mean T(air) and svpd during the daytime between OTCs and ambient air were related to canopy structure. Differences were largest after each cut and declined with increasing LAI. A small effect of changes in LAI on T(air) and svpd occurred during periods with low soil water content. The flux of O(3) in OTCs was largest (>100 microg m(-2) min(-1)) before and smallest (<20 microg m(-2) min(-1)) after each cut. Calculated deposition velocities for O(3) (nu(d)) in the range 0-3 cm s(-1) were generally higher than those measured under most field conditions. Overall, in OTCs the deficit in soil and atmospheric moisture was larger than in the open field, and the increase in daily mean T(air) was strongly influenced by the stage of canopy development. Changes in microclimate and incoming radiation affected pasture development. LAI was slightly reduced in OTCs as compared to AA plots. The total accumulated dry matter yield for all six growth periods was only about 7% lower in OTCs, but the contribution of clover to total forage mass declined during the experiment. OTCs had no significant effect on weeds. The results indicate that OTCs reduced the competitiveness of clover, and that the increase in growth of grasses compensates for the loss in clover yield. The shift in species composition caused by OTCs must be considered when studying the effect of pollutants on pasture.

I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in defense of justice is no virtue. Thursday, September 6, 2007 Chicom Hilly R. Emmet Tyrell wrote a column today giving a seamless narrative of the purchase of the Clints by Chicom intelligence, with an emphasis on the latest shenanagans by the Hsu's and the Paws.How can the Repubs not be making any noise about this? Are these guys completely brain-dead? This is an opportunity to connect with the Republican base like no other, we all hate and fear the Clinton's for just this reason; they will bring a collection of sleazy Socialist criminals into the Executive Branch and destroy this country. If they were ever to stand up to the Chicoms (an unlikely scenario) couldnt Hu Jintao just produce Hsu, Chung and Trie at a press conference in Beijing? A real blackmail possibility. The Democrats cant possibly be stupid enough to invest their hopes in these sleazy Clintons. And why are the Republicans having debates where they're not screaming and demanding an explanation from Mrs. Sleazeball? The Repub theme should be 'Stench Of Corruption' and they should be shouting this from the rooftops. Instead they're arguing amongst themselves about trivia. A bought-and-paid-for agent of Chicom intelligence is running for president and the opposition party doesnt seem to notice. Whichever candidate announces and makes a major speech demanding that Dragon Lady come clean will win himself a place in the hearts of Repub primary voters. The warroom generated firestorm of reaction from the Clintonista sock-puppets and their bum-crawling toadies in the drive-by media will bring this to the attention of even the most befuddled Oprah viewer. Which of our candidates is going to show the cajones needed to take on America's bitter enemies-- starting with Chicom Hilly and her perjuring, rapist husband.

100 House Dems want new trade rules Over 100 House Democrats including nine committee chairmen have signed on to legislation that would require President Obama to submit a plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other trade deals. The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act of 2009 calls on the president to submit a plan to address through renegotiations gaps between existing deals, as well as benchmarks Congress would set on various issues. ADVERTISEMENT It would establish a congressional “super committee,” to be chaired by the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committee chairmen, to formulate the plan. It also calls for a new “fast-track” law that would require Congress to vote in favor of a new trade agreement before the president offers his signature. Backers of the bill, including primary sponsor Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine), described it as “consistent with what the president said he would do before he was elected.” During last year’s presidential campaign, Obama said he would consider pulling the U.S. out of NAFTA. Since his election, Obama has called for tougher labor and environmental rules to be included in the deal, which covers the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The new trade legislation is similar to a 2008 bill, but that measure attracted only 74 co-sponsors and did not make it out of committee. The rising number of co-sponsors on the legislation reflects both the larger Democratic majority in the House and increasing skepticism about trade amid a global recession. It also underlines questions about when three trade deals completed by the Bush administration might receive votes in Congress. Those agreements are with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Only two Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors: Reps. Walter Jones of North Carolina and Chris Smith of New Jersey. The Democratic chairmen who are co-sponsors are Robert Brady (Pa.) of House Administration; John Conyers Jr. (Mich.) of Judiciary; Bob Filner (Calif.) of Veterans’ Affairs; Bart Gordon (Tenn.) of Science and Technology; Jim Oberstar (Minn.) of Transportation; Collin Peterson (Minn.) of Agriculture; Nick Rahall (W.Va.) of Natural Resources; John Spratt (S.C.) of Budget; and Louise Slaughter (N.Y.) of Rules. Lawmakers cited a number of issues in arguing for the legislation, from concerns that imported food is not safe to environmental issues, workers’ rights and a need to combat job loss. Existing policies on international trade “have been anything but beneficial to our workers and our businesses,” Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) said. “There are those out there who will accuse us of being anti-trade,” Sutton said. “But we are in favor of trade that is fair and balanced and will work with our businesses and workers —and not against them by leaving them at an unfair disadvantage.” International trade has plunged in the wake of the recession. The World Bank predicted this week that global trade would drop by 10 percent this year, and that developing countries would be particularly hard-hit.